(a) in any Motion (including a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill), or

(b) in debate, or

(c) in any question to a Minister including a supplementary question;

(a) in any Motion (including a Motion for leave to bring in a Bill), or

(b) in debate, or

(c) in any question to a Minister including a supplementary question from the time that the case has been set down for trial or otherwise brought before the court, as for example by notice of motion for an injunction; such matters may be referred to before such date unless it appears to the Chair that there is a real and substantial danger of prejudice to the trial of the case.

(a) in the case of a criminal case in courts of law, including courts martial, from the moment the law is set in motion by a charge being made;

(b) in the case of a civil case in courts of law, from the time that the case has been set down for trial or otherwise brought before the court, as for example by notice of motion for an injunction;

(c) in the case of any judicial body to which the House has expressly referred a specific matter for decision and report, from the time when the Resolution of the House is passed.

(a) in the case of courts of law, when the verdict and sentence have been announced or judgment given, but resumed when notice of appeal is given until the appeal has been decided;

(b) in the case of courts martial, when the sentence of the court has been confirmed and promulgated, but resumed when the convicted man petitions the Army Council, the Air Council or the Board of Admiralty;

(c) in the case of any judicial body to which the House has expressly referred a specific matter for decision and report, as soon as the report is laid before the House.

(a) which is still subject to scrutiny (that is, on which the European Scrutiny Committee has not completed its scrutiny) or

(b) which is awaiting consideration by the House (that is, which has been recommended by the European Scrutiny Committee for consideration pursuant to Standing Order No. 119 (European Standing Committees) but in respect of which the House has not come to a Resolution).

(a) agreement to a programme, plan or recommendation for European Community legislation;

(b) political agreement;

(c) in the case of a proposal on which the Council acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 189b of the Treaty of Rome (co-decision), agreement to a common position, to a joint text, and to confirmation of the common position (with or without amendments proposed by the European Parliament); and

(d) in the case of a proposal on which the Council acts in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 189c of the Treaty of Rome (co-operation), agreement to a common position.

(a) to a proposal which is still subject to scrutiny if he considers that it is confidential, routine or trivial or is substantially the same as a proposal on which scrutiny has been completed;

(b) to a proposal which is awaiting consideration by the House if the European Scrutiny Committee has indicated that agreement need not be withheld pending consideration.

(a) in every such case, to the European Scrutiny Committee at the first opportunity after reaching his decision; and

(b) in the case of a proposal awaiting consideration by the House, to the House at the first opportunity after giving agreement.

In paragraph (1) the words 'a common position or joint action under Title V or a joint position, joint action or convention under Title VI of the Treaty on European Union' are replaced by the words 'a common strategy, joint action or common position under Title V or a common position, framework decision, decision or convention under Title VI of the Treaty on European Union'; and

In paragraph (2)(c) the words 'a common position, to a joint text, and to confirmation of the common position (with or without amendments proposed by the European Parliament),' are replaced by the words 'a common position, to an act in the form of a common position incorporating amendments proposed by the European Parliament, and to a joint text'.

Resolved, That, subject always to the discretion of the Chair, and in addition to the estabished rules of order on the form and content of questions, questions may not be tabled on matters for which responsibility has been dovolved by legislation to the Scottish Parliament or the National Assembly for Wales unless the question:
(a) seeks information which the United Kingdom Government is empowered to require of the devolved executive, or

(b) relates to matters which:

(i) are included in legislative proposals introduced or to be introduced in the United Kingdom Parliament,

(ii) are concerned with the operation of a concordat or other instrument of liaison between the United Kingdom Government and the devolved executive, or

(iii) United Kingdom Government ministers have taken an official interest in, or

(c) presses for action by United Kingdom ministers in areas in which they retain administrative powers.

A Sessional Order for Session 1999-2000 was made on 25th October 1999 in the same terms as that relating to Thursday Sittings contained on pp. 127-8 of the Standing Orders.  

Standing Committees shall have leave to sit at any hour and notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, subject to the following provisions:

(a) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays when the House is sitting, no standing committee sitting at Westminster shall sit between the hours of one o’clock and half-past three o’clock, except as provided in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees); and

(b) on Thursdays when the House is sitting, no standing committee sitting at Westminster shall sit between the hours of twenty-five minutes past eleven o’clock and half-past twelve o’clock, except as provided in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees), with the substitution in that paragraph of ‘twenty-five minutes past eleven o’clock’ for ‘one o’clock’ and ‘twenty minutes to twelve o’clock’ for ‘a quarter past one o’clock’.

Ordered, That in the next Session of Parliament the Standing Orders and practice of the House shall have effect subject to the modifications set out below:

(1) On days on which the House shall sit there shall be a sitting in Westminster Hall-

(a) on Tuesdays between Ten o'clock and One o'clock;

(b) on Wednesdays between half-past Nine o'clock and Two o'clock; and

(c) on Thursdays beginning at half-past Two o'clock and continuing for up to three hours (and in calculating that period no account shall be taken of any period during which the sitting may be suspended owing to a division being called in the House of a committee of the whole House).

(2) Any member of the House may take part in a sitting in Westminster Hall.

(3) Subject to paragraph (12) below, the business taken at any sitting in Westminster Hall shall be such as the Chairman of Ways and Means shall appoint.

(4) The Chairman of Ways and Means or a Deputy Chairman shall take the chair in Westminster Hall as Deputy Speaker; and the House may appoint not more than four other members of the Chairmen's Panel to sit in Westminster Hall as a Deputy Speaker.

(5) Any order made or resolution come to at a sitting in Westminstr Hall (other than a resolution to adjourn) shall be reported to the House by the Deputy Speaker and shall be deemed to be an order or resolution of the House.

(6) If a motion be made by a Minister of the Crown that an order of the day be proceeded with at a sitting in Westminster Hall, the question thereon shall be put forthwith, but such motion may be made only with the leave of the House and may not be made on a Friday.

(7) The quorum at a sitting in Westminster Hall shall be three.

(8) If at a sitting in Westminster Hall the opinion of the Deputy Speaker as to the decision of a question (other than a question for adjournment) is challenged, that question shall not be decided, and the Deputy Speaker shall report to the House accordingly; and any such question shall be put forthwith upon a motion being made in the House.

(9) If any business other than a motion for adjournement is under consideration at a sitting in Westminster Hall, and not fewer than six Members rise in their places and signify their objection to further proceeding, that business shall not be further proceeded with in Westminster Hall, and the Deputy Speaker shall report to the House accordingly, and any order under paragraph (6) above relating thereto shall be discharged.

(10) At the end of each sitting in Westminster Hall, unless a question for adjournment has previously been agreed to, the Deputy Speaker shall adjourn the sitting without putting any question; and proceedings on any business which has been entered upon but no disposed of shall lapse.

(11) The provisions of Standing Orders No. 29 (Powers of chair to propose question), No. 36 (Closure of debate), No.37 (Majority for closure or proposal of question), No. 38 (Procedure on divisions), No. 39 (Voting), No. 40 Division unnecessarily claimed), No. 41 (Quorum), No. 43 (Disorderly conduct), No. 44 (Order in debate), No. 45 (Members suspended, &c. to withdraw from precincts), No. 45A (Suspension of salary of Members suspended) and No. 163 (Motions to sit in private) shall not apply to sittings in Westminster Hall.

(12) The House shall meet on Wednesdays at half-past Two o’clock, and paragraphs (1) and (2) of Standing Order No. 9 (Sittings of the House) shall have effect on Wednesdays; and Standing Order No. 10 (Wednesday sittings), so far as it relates to business taken before Two o’clock, shall apply only to sittings in Westminster Hall, and shall have effect as if paragraph (3) were omitted.