Standing rules and orders or [sic] the orderly conduct of the business of the generallegislative council of the Leeward Islands.Author(s): Leeward Islands (West Indies). and General Legislative Council.Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, (1893)Published by: The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University LibraryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/60232694 .

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\q Appendix III,

v^TANMNa RULES AND ORDERS

OR THE ORDERLY CONDUCT OF THE BUSINESS OF THE

GENERAL LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL,

OF THE

LEEWARD ISLANDS.

1893.

1. The Council shall meet At 11 o'clock in the forenoon, except When some other hour shall have been appointed for its meeting.

2. The Chair shall be taken, as soon as the Council shall be constituted for the despatch of business, that is to say, as soon as at the least eleven Members shall be present and assisting. In the event of a sufficient number of Members not attending within half an hour after the time appointed for a meeting, such meet¬

ing shall stand adjourned to the next day, unless the next day be a Sunday or a public holiday, in which case the Council shall stand adjourned to the following working day.

3 When the President and Vice-president are both absent from any meeting of the Council, the Council may elect any Member present to preside at such meeting.

4. fto Member shall quit the Council Chamber during a sit¬ ting of the Bouso, whether in Council or in Committee, without leave from the Chairman.

B. The Council may adjourn any meeting to such time as it shall think proper ; and, if at any meeting the Council shall rise without adjournment, such meeting shall stand adjourned to the next day, or, if that be a Sunday or public holiday, then to tha following working-day.

6. The Clerk shall at every meeting take minutes, which shall consist of particulars ot the proceedings. He shall enter in the minutes the names of all Members present at the assembling of the Council; and in case any other Member shall take his Beat subsequently at such meeting or shall leave the House before the rising of the Council, the Clerk shall note the fact at the pro¬ per place in the minutes. Before the Council shall proceed to any other business at any meeting, the minutes of the proceedings of the last preceding meeting, as taken by the Clerk, shall be read by him, amended, if necessary, and confirmed. It any Member shall be desirous of making any correction of the minutes, he shall propose such correction immediately after the minutes are read, and the same shall be forthwith admitted or rejected by the Council.

7. Subject to Standing Rules and Orders, no proposition shall be entertained at any meeting unless notice thereof shall have been given at a previous meeting, or Standing Rules and Orders shall have been suspended for the purpose.

8. A book shall be kept by the Clerk, to be called the Order of the Day Book ; wherein shall be inserted a notice of every original pi ©position intended to be submitted to the Council, iu the order in- which notice thereof shall have been given.

Hour of meeting.

Commencement business.

of

Chairmanship Council.

of

Leaving th^House

Adjournments,

Minute*.

Noticei

^ Order or the D»j Book,

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Order of business.

Bules of debate.

Motions.

Amendments,

Voting,

&„ The following shall be the order of business in the House r (1) reading and confirmation of minutes ; (2) swearing in of new Members; (3) communications from the Chair ; (4) presentation of petitions and memorials; (5) questions of which notice has been given ; (6) answers to such questions ; (7) money votes;, (8) bills; (9) rules;

(10) other motions- (11) noiices; and (12) adjournment.

Subject as aforesaid, all propositions shall be submitted to the Council in th.9 order in which they staDd in the Order of the Day Book ; provided that the Council may by specific vote determine to proceed to any particular business out of the regular order, and a motion for such vote may be made without notice and shall take precedence of all other business.

10. Every Member shall speak standing and address his ob¬ servations to the Chair. If two Members rise at the same time to speak, the Chairman shall call on the member who first catches his e}e. Every Member must confine his observations to the subject under consideration. No Member shall impute improper motives to any other Member. All personalities are to be care¬ fully avoided. A Member shall not be interrupted, unless out of order. When he has finished his observations, he will resume his seat, and any other Member wishing to address the Council will rise. No Member shall speak more than once on the same propo¬ sition, except in explanation, or to order, or when the Council is in Committer. Ihe Member who originated a proposition may, however, reply, alter all the other Members present hhall have had an opportunity cf making their observations and before the mo¬ tion is put. Any Member deviating from the rules may be im¬ mediately called to order ; and if any dispute arise as to whether the Member is or is not incrder, huch question shall be decided by the Chairman, who.e ruling shall ba final upon all questions of order and procedure,

11. All propositions shall be submitted to'the Council by way o? motion, and every motion shall be reduced to writing and read by the Clerk Every motion must be seconded, a-id, if not seconded shall not he debated and shall be considered as lost, and a note of its being lost entered in the minutes.

12. Any member may propose ary amendment cf any propo¬ sition ; provided that the amendment be relevant to the proposi¬ tion and provided thai no Member move more than one amend¬ ment cf the same proposi ion or any amendment substantially identical with an amendment moved by another Member. Every question of ihe relevancy or irrelevancy of an amendment or of the identity of one amendment with another shall be decided by the Chairman, amendments of a proposition shall be put before the original proposition and in the inverted order of their being

moved.

13. When the debate upon a motion is concluded, the Coun¬ cil shall proceed to vote thereon, and the Cieik shall col.'ect the votes by calling over the names of all the Members present in alphabetical order, with the exception of the Chairman, whose vote shall be taken last; and every Member shall upon his name being called, give his vote by saying

u Ave " or " No," and, after

having taken the votes, the Clerk shall declare the result and re¬ cord in the minutes the vote of e ach Member for or against the question,

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14. Every proposition once submitted to the Council shall be disposed of, before any other question shall be entertained ; but this rule shall not exclude amendments or motions for adjourning the consideration of any subject or for the adjournment of the House, which may be moved at any time and shall be immediately deci. dedupon; provided that, if, in the course of a debate, a motion that the Cc uncil or the debate be adjourned be put and negativ¬ ed, no further motion for adjournment shall be made in the course of the same debate without the leave of the Chair first obtained.

Disposal nesa.

of busi«

15. Every bill intended for submission to the Council shall be fairly printed or written, and a copy thereof furnished to Mem¬ bers uotless than 48 hours before its introduction.

Publication of bills

16. No bill shall be introduced, until leave for its introduc- introduction ana tion fhall have been apjlied for and grautel. No notice of an in- rb ea ing0

temion to applv for leave to introduce a i-ill need be given. If leave to introduce a bill be granted, the bill may be introduced, a> d its provisions explained, either immediately or at any time witbm the next six months. When introduced, a bill shall be read a first time by the Clerk without question or debate,

17. Every bill shall be read three times previously to its Su«penoion of

being passed, and no bill shall be advanced more than one stage fufther'^eachugs of at any <-)nesitting, unless Standing Rules and Orders shall have bU1- been formally suspended for the purpose.

Committee stage and second leading cf bill,

18. If the question of the second reading of a bill be answer¬ ed in t) e affirmitive, the bill shall stand referred to a Committee of the whole House, where it shall be read and, if so resolved, amended, clause by clause.first the clauses being token ia order, then the schedule*, if any, in order, next the preamble, if any, and lastly the title; and such reading in Committee shall be deemed to be a second reading of the bill.

19. If the question of flie third reading of a bill be Janswered Third K&aing an(j In the affirmitive, the bill shall be considered to have passed and passing of bill? thereupon the President, or the Vice-President shall lay the bill before the Governor for his approbation.

20. When a bill is ordered to be read a first or third time, b ^"s oC bl11

the Cleik, unless the Council dissent, may read only the title of the bill; when the bill shall be considered as read,

21. No private bill which may directly affect the interests Pirate bills, of individuals shall be passed, until after due notice of the same shall have been given, in such manner a? the House may direct, to all persons concerned, nor unless its preamble shall be proved.

22. The Government shall not propose any vote or resolu- Money votes, tion having for its object to charge any part of the revenues arising within the Leeward Islands without giving two days' previous notice thereof.

23. The Council may, upon the motion of any Member, re¬ solve itself into a Committee of the whole House for the consid¬ eration of any matter which may be referred to such Committee.

24. The President, or, in his absence, the Vice-President, sh.aU be Chairman of Committees.

25. No petition relating to any scrutiny or controverted election si all be received after the third meeting of the Council subsequent to the returned Member taking his seat; and in no fia^-e in which the Council bhall entertain a petition against the return of a Member shall such Member be permitted to vote en any subject connected with such petition or in the scrutiny of the votes tiken thereon.

Committees of tb» whoie House,

Chairmanship of Committeas,

Eleotian petitions

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Appearance of Mombeis as counsel

Communications to Couticil,

Custody and pro¬ duction of papers,

Duties of Clefk Wth regard to bills and records,

Signing, appro ?al, recording, printing end distribution ot Standing Ordeia.

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26. No Member of the Council shall be permitted to appear

at the bar thereof in any matter to be deliberated by the Council.

27. No communication to the Council, except eommunication3

made by the Governor, shall be received, unle&s it be in the form

of a petition or a memorial, duly signed by the person or persons from

whom it emanate.?; and every su h petition or memorial must be

presented by some Member, w'io shall be responsible for its being

couched in respectful terms. Cn the presentation of any petition or

memorial the Member presentirg the same may without previous

notice move that it be ordered to lie on the table.

28. All papers laid before the Council shall be deposited with

the Clerk, who shall be responsible for the safe custody thereof; and

all such papers shall be ready to be produced before the Council,

whenever required by any Member, and shall.be at all times open

to the inspection and perusal of Members.

29. The Clerk shsll copy all bills and acts and put ihe margi¬

nal notes thereto and keep an index of the records cf the Council.

30. The Standing Rules and Orders of the Council shall be

signed by the President (or Vice-president) and, when confirmed by

the Governor, shall be recorded by the Clerk and printed, and a copy

delivered to each Member.

Adopted by the General Legislative Council on the 7th day of

December, 1893. H. OGILVIE BENNETT,

PreSidento

Confirmed by me this 8th day of December, 1893.

W. F. HAYNE3 SMITH, Governor.

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