TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| Table showing dates at which Standing Orders of 1999 were passed and amended
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The Speaker |
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1. | Election of the Speaker
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DEPUTY SPEAKER AND CHAIRMEN |
2. | Deputy Chairmen |
3. | Deputy Speaker |
4. | Chairmen's Panel
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MEMBERS (INTRODUCTION AND SEATING) |
5. | Affirmation in lieu of oath |
6. | Time for taking the oath |
7. | Seats not to be taken before prayers |
8. | Seats secured at prayers
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SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE |
9. | Sittings of the House |
10. | Wednesday sittings |
11. | Friday sittings |
12. | House not to sit on certain Fridays |
13. | Earlier meeting of House in certain circumstances
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ARRANGEMENT AND TIMING OF PUBLIC AND PRIVATE BUSINESS |
14. | Arrangement of public business |
15. | Exempted business |
16. | Proceedings under an Act or on European Union documents |
17. | Delegated legislation (negative procedure) |
18. | Consideration of draft deregulation orders |
19. | New writs |
20. | Time for taking private business
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NOTICES OF QUESTIONS, ETC. |
21. | Time for taking questions |
22. | Notices of questions, motions and amendments
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MOTIONS FOR BILLS AND SELECT COMMITTEES |
23. | Motions for leave to bring in bills and nomination of select committees at commencement of public business
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MOTIONS FOR THE ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE |
24. | Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration |
25. | Periodic adjournments
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ORDERS OF THE DAY |
26. | Orders of the day to be read without question put |
27. | Order of disposing of orders of the day
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RULES OF DEBATE |
28. | Anticipation |
29. | Powers of chair to propose question |
30. | Debate on motion for the adjournment of the House |
31. | Questions on amendments |
32. | Selection of amendments |
33. | Calling of amendments at end of debate |
34. | Debate on dilatory motion |
35. | Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House |
36. | Closure of debate |
37. | Majority for closure or for proposal of question
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DIVISIONS |
38. | Procedure on divisions |
39. | Voting |
40. | Division unnecessarily claimed |
41. | Quorum
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ORDER IN THE HOUSE |
42. | Irrelevance or repetition |
43. | Disorderly conduct |
44. | Order in debate |
45. | Members suspended, &c., to withdraw from precincts |
45A. | Suspension of salary of members suspended |
46. | Power of the Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting |
47. | Short speeches
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PUBLIC MONEY |
48. | Recommendation from Crown required on application relating to public money |
49. | Certain proceedings relating to public money |
50. | Procedure upon bills whose main object is to create a charge upon the public revenue |
51. | Ways and means motions |
52. | Money resolutions and ways and means resolutions in connection with Bills |
53. | Application of public money standing orders to private bills, &c. |
54. | Consideration of estimates |
55. | Questions on voting of estimates, &c. |
56. | Consolidated Fund Bills
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PUBLIC BILLS |
57. | Presentation and first reading |
58. | Consolidation bills |
59. | Law Commission bills |
60. | Tax simplification bills |
61. | Bills which are prima facie hybrid |
62. | Amendment on second or third reading |
63. | Committal of bills |
64. | Notices of amendments, &c., to bills |
65. | Amendments in committee |
66. | Committee of whole House on bill |
67. | Postponement of preamble |
68. | Debate on clause or schedule standing part |
69. | Procedure on offer of new clause |
70. | When chairman leaves chair without question put |
71. | Report of bill from committee of whole House |
72. | Consideration of bill as amended in committee of whole House |
73. | Report of bills committed to standing committees |
74. | Re-committal of bill |
75. | Amendments on report |
76. | Debate on bill reported from standing committee |
77. | Third reading |
78. | Lords amendments |
79. | Pecuniary penalties |
80. | Privilege (bills brought from the Lords) |
81. | Temporary laws |
82. | Business Committee |
83. | Allocation of time to bills
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STANDING COMMITTEES |
84. | Constitution of standing committees |
85. | Chairmen of standing committees |
86. | Nomination of standing committees |
87. | Attendance of law officers and ministers in standing committees |
88. | Meetings of standing committees |
89. | Procedure in standing committees |
90. | Second reading committees |
91. | Special standing committees |
92. | Consideration on report of certain bills by a standing committee |
93. | Scottish Grand Committee (composition and business) |
94. | Scottish Grand Committee (questions for oral answer) |
95. | Scottish Grand Committee (short debates) |
96. | Scottish Grand Committee (ministerial statements) |
97. | Scottish Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle) |
98. | Scottish Grand Committee (delegated legislation) |
99. | Scottish Grand Committee (substantive motions for the adjournment) |
100. | Scottish Grand Committee (sittings) |
101. | Scottish Standing Committees |
102. | Welsh Grand Committee (composition and business) |
103. | Welsh Grand Committee (questions for oral answer) |
104. | Welsh Grand Committee (short debates) |
105. | Welsh Grand Committee (ministerial statements) |
106. | Welsh Grand Committee (bills) |
107. | Welsh Grand Committee (matters relating exclusively to Wales) |
108. | Welsh Grand Committee (sittings) |
109. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (composition and business) |
110. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (questions for oral answer) |
111. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (short debates) |
112. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (ministerial statements) |
113. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (bills in relation to their principle) |
114. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (legislative proposals and other matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland) |
115. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (delegated legislation) |
116. | Northern Ireland Grand Committee (sittings) |
117. | Standing Committee on Regional Affairs |
118. | Standing Committees on Delegated Legislation |
119. | European Standing Committees |
120. | Business sub-committees
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SELECT COMMITTEES |
121. | Nomination of select committees |
122. | Lists of Members serving on select committees |
123. | Sittings of committees |
124. | Quorum of select committees |
125. | Strangers (select committees) |
126. | Withdrawal of Members from meetings of select committees |
127. | Withdrawal of documents before select committee |
128. | Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee |
129. | Minutes of proceedings to be laid on the Table |
130. | Entry on minutes of evidence of select committee |
131. | Entry of questions asked |
132. | Administration of oath in select committee |
133. | Power to report opinion and observations |
134. | Select committees (reports) |
135. | Witnesses and evidence (select committees) |
136. | Publication of evidence (select committees) |
137. | Select committees (adjournment of the House) |
138. | Members (attendance at Lords select committees) |
139. | Select Committee on Broadcasting |
140. | Joint Committee on Consolidation, &c., Bills |
141. | Deregulation Committee |
142. | Domestic Committees |
143. | European Scrutiny Committee |
144. | Finance and Services Committee |
145. | Liaison Committee |
146. | Select Committee on Public Administration |
147. | Procedure Committee |
148. | Committee of Public Accounts |
149. | Committee on Standards and Privileges |
150. | Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards |
151. | Statutory Instruments (Joint Committee) |
152. | Select committees related to government departments |
152A. | Environmental Audit Committee
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PUBLIC PETITIONS |
153. | Presentation of petitions |
154. | Time and manner of presenting petitions |
155. | Petition as to present personal grievance |
156. | Printing of petitions and of ministerial replies |
157. | Petitions against imposition of tax
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PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS |
158. | Presentation of command papers |
159. | Presentation of statutory instruments |
160. | Notification in respect of certain statutory instruments
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STRANGERS |
161. | Duties of Serjeant at Arms with respect to strangers |
162. | Places to which strangers are not admitted |
163. | Motions to sit in private |
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