made after the commencement of public un ment of 5. On days on which government business Arrangehas priority, the government may arrange government such government business, whether orders of the day or notices of motions, in such order as they may think fit. business. of bills after tide. 6. After Whitsuntide, public bills, other Precedence than government bills, shall be arranged on Whitsunthe order book so as to give priority to the bills most advanced, and lords' amendments to public bills appointed to be considered shall be placed first, to be followed by third readings, considerations of report, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings. Period for which notices of motion may 7. No notice shall be given beyond the period which shall include the four days next following on which notices are entitled to pre- be given. = cedence; due allowance being made for any intervening adjournment of the house, and de the the period being in that case so far extended as to include four notice days falling during the sitting of the house. 7A. The proceedings on the reports of the committee of ways and means and committees authorising the expenditure of public money, except the committee of supply, may be entered upon after eleven of the clock though opposed, and shall not be interrupted under the provisions of the standing order "sittings of the house." Private Business. 8.-(1.) No opposed private business shall be set down for the sittings on Friday. (2.) All private business which is set down. for Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday, and is not disposed of by three of the clock shall, without question put, be postponed until such time as the chairman of ways and means may determine. (3.) Provided that such private business shall always be taken at half-past seven on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday. or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the house standing over has been disposed of, and that such postponed business shall be distributed as near as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and the other sittings. (4.) No ded ring (4.) No opposed private business other than that then under consideration shall be taken after half-past nine of the clock. the (5.) Unopposed private business shall have ttees precedence of opposed private business. bug! ade ing Questions. to members. 9.--(1.) Notices of questions shall be given Questions by members in writing to the clerk at the table without reading them viva voce in the house, unless the consent of the speaker to any par ticular question has been previously obtained. (2.) Questions shall be taken on Monday, 87 Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, after private business has been disposed of, and not later than three of the clock. (3.) No questions shall be taken after a quarter before four of the clock, except questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the minister to whom they are addressed, and questions which have not appeared on the paper, but which are of an urgent character, and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business. (4.) Any member who desires an oral answer to his question may distinguish it by an asterisk, but notice of any such question must appear at latest on the notice paper circulated on the day before that on which an answer is desired. (5.) If any member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he or any other member Motion for adjournment on matter of urgent public import ance. Anticipation. member deputed by him is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by a quarter before four of the clock, the minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates, unless the member has signified his desire to postpone the question. Adjournment on Matter of Public Importance. 10. No motion for the adjournment of the house shall be made until all the questions asked at the commencement of business on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday have been disposed of, and no such motion shall be made before the orders of the day or notices of motion have been entered upon, except by leave of the house, unless a member rising in his place shall propose to move the adjournment for the purpose of discussing a definite matter of urgent public importance, and not less than forty members shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or unless, if fewer than forty members and not less than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the house shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. If the motion is so supported, or the house so determines that it shall be made, it shall stand over until half-past seven on the same day. Anticipation. 10A. In determining whether a discussion is out of order on the ground of anticipation, regard efore sk it, regard shall be had by Mr. Speaker to the probability of the matter anticipated being brought before the House within a reasonable time. it is inted ntary d his ance. day, beer ade of leave to and nomina committees mencement business. 11. On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and, if Motions for f the set down by the government, on Mondays and bring in bills sked Thursdays, motions for leave to bring in bills, tion of select and for the nomination of select committees, at commay be set down for consideration at the com- of public mencement of public business. If such motions be opposed, Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the member who moves and from the member who opposes any such motion respectively, may, without further debate, put the question thereon, or the question, that the debate be now adjourned. are Lis I tion Orders of the Day. read withtion put. out ques 12. At the time fixed for the commencement Orders of day to be of public business, on days on which orders have precedence of notices of motions, and after the notices of motions have been disposed of, on all other days, Mr. Speaker shall direct the clerk at the table to read the orders of the day, without any question being put. 13. The orders of the day shall be disposed Order of of in the order in which they stand upon the orders of day paper; disposing of gard |