Standing rules orders: Legislative Council : Falkland Islands.Author(s): Falkland Islands. and Legislative Council.Source: Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, (1900)Published by: The University of Manchester, The John Rylands University LibraryStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/60232656 .

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Falkland Islands. ^:gd 27 AUG 00

1.—The Governor, or in his absence, the Senior Member shall

jjreside.

2.—The Council shall meet on summons from the Governor, or pursuant to adjournment.

3.—If two Members, exclusive of the Governor, he not present thirty minutes after the appointed hour of meeting, the Clerk shall

rop >rt the circumstance to the Governor who will take measures to obtain a quorum or adjourn the Meeting.

4.—The President's ruling on all points of order shall be final. /

5.—Before proceeding to the business of the day the minutes of the preceding Meeting shall be read, if necessary amended, .aiid onfirmecl.

(j.—The President shall put all questions and declare the sense of the Council thereon.

7.—Any Member may divide the Council upon any motion or

question.

8.—A Member shall1 stand while speaking, and shall address the Chair.

9.—An adjournment of the discussion of any question may at

any time be'moved and may be adopted or not by the majority. /

10.—All Bills, except in cases of emergency, shall be published in the Government Gazette not less than one week before introduc¬ tion.

11.—No Bill shall be introduced until motion has been made and leave granted.

12.—All Bills shall be read for the First and Third time by title only.

13,—On the second reading of a Bill being moved, any Member

may address the Council on its general principles; and on the s >cond reading being carried the Council may resolve itself into a Committee for its consideration, and the Bill shall be read clause

by clause by the Clerk of the Council, the enacting clause, the

preamble, and title, being subsequently read in the order herein named.

14-,—Before the question that a Bill be read a Third time and

pxssed be put, the Clerk shall certify that all the amendments

agreed to or carried have been duly made and entered in the Bill.

15,—Every Bill when passed shall be styled "An Ordinance " enacted by the Governor of the Colony of the Falkland Islands, " with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof."

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15,—Tn cases of urgency" or where it may be expedient to pass a Bill through its various stages at one sitting, the Standing Rules and Orders or any particular clause thereof may, on motion being only made, be suspended.

17.—The Clerk of the Council shall keep a Minute Book in -which shall bo entered the subjects brought under discussion at each sitting, and the vote given by each Member shall be recorded therein.

13, I]1 cases of Private Bills, or in cases where individual

rights or interests may be peculiarly affected, any party concerned mav be heard either personally or bv Counsel, such Counsel not beimr a Member of the Legislative Council.

19.—Any Petition vouched for by a Member as being respec¬ tfully worded, may be presented immediately after the Minutes have been read.

20.—-V]1Y Member may move that such Petition be read, and if the motion be carried the Petition shall be read accordingly.

21,-—"When any Member presents a written protest against' any measure it shall be entered at length on the Minutes.

22." ~^ Bill which has been introduced and passed, but

respecting which the exercise of Her Majesty's power of disallow¬ ance has not been made known may, by leave of the President and

majority of the Council be submitted for amendment, provided it shall not have been already submitted for the same, and in such case the Bill shall be referred back to the Committee; and any amendment which shall be adopted shall be inserted by the Clerk of the Council in the original Bill, and when so inserted shall form

part of the Bill to all intents and purposes as if originally inserted therein.

23.—A copy of every Ordinance shall be supplied to each Member.

Adopted in the Legislative Council 19th May, 1900.

M. Craigie-Halkett, Clerk of Councils.

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