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INDEX
[References are to Standing Order numbers and Appendix pages]
Accommodation and Works Committee, 142
Act of Parliament, proceedings under, length of debate, 16
Adjournment
amendments tabled during, 64
debates
half-hour, 9(7)
Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 116(5)
scope of
references to legislation, 30
urgent debate, 24(6)
Scottish Grand Committee,99, 100(6)
urgent specific and important matter, 24
Welsh Grand Committee, 108(5)
dilatory motion, 34,35
disorder, by Speaker because of, 46
earlier meeting during, 13
Friday to Monday, 11(6)
motion lapses at moment of interruption, 9(3)
papers presented during, 158,159
periodic, 25
questions, effect on notice period, 22(7)–(8)
select committees
reports &c. during, 137
sittings during, 123
Thursday to Monday, 12(3)
when movable, 9(2)
without question put, 9(7)
Administration Committee, 142
Affirmation, 5,6
select committee witnesses, 132
Aids and supplies, Bills of, not to be brought from Lords, 80
Allocation of time orders, 83
Business Committee, 82
business sub-committees, 120
programming of bills, Appendix
Allotted Days
Amendments
bills, to
powers of committees to consider, 65
receipt of during adjournment, 64
report stage, when authorisation required, 75
third reading, must be merely verbal, 77
early day motions, to, receipt of, 22(2)
Lords, 78
pecuniary penalties, and, 79
non-sitting Fridays, tabled on, 12(4)
Queen's Speech debate, at end of, 33
question to be proposed on, 31
selection of, 32
Speaker's election, not allowed, 1B(14)
standing committees, referred to, 89(3)(a)
Anticipation rule, 28
Appropriation Bills, proceedings on, 56
Ballots
election of Speaker, 1B
private Members' bills, 14(6)
Bills, Hybrid, 61
Bills, Private
committees, service of suspended Member on, 45(2)
pecuniary penalties, &c., imposed by Lords, 79
public money standing orders, and, 53
when taken, 9(1),
11(1), 20
Bills, Provisional Order
committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)
hybridity rules do not apply, 61
public money standing orders, and, 53
Bills, Public. See also Committee of the whole House
allocation of time to, 83
amendments. See under Amendments,
carry-over, Appendix
clause or schedule standing part, debate on, 68
clause, new, 69
committal 63
motions subject to selection, 32(4)
committees' powers to consider amendments, 65
consideration on report. See subheading report stage
Consolidated Fund or Appropriation, proceedings on, 56
committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)
consolidation, 58
Examiners, referred to, 61
first reading, 57
hybrid, 61
introduction of, 57
Law Commission bills, 59
long title amended, 65
Lords, brought from, 57(3)
pecuniary penalties, 79
private Members, by, 14(7)(c)
privilege, 80
public charge, creating, 50(2)
Lords amendments 78
money and ways and means resolutions on, 52
preamble postponed, 67
presentation, 57
printing 57
private Members'
programming, Appendix
proposal of question, motions for, 29
public charge as main purpose, 50
recommittal, 72, 74
motions subject to selection, 32(4)
report stage
amendments requiring authorisation, 75
as amended in committee of whole House, 71,
72
standing committee, bills reported from, 73
standing committee, referred for consideration in, 92
Scottish, 97
standing committees, see Committees, standing: Scottish
second reading
amendments to question, 62
amendment to leave out 'now', 31(1)
bill considered in Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 113
bill considered in Scottish Grand Committee, 97(6)
bill considered in Welsh Grand Committee, 106
second reading committee, 90
Law Commission bills, 59
tax simplification bills, 60
special standing committee, 91
tax simplification, 60
committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)
committee discharged, 60(8), 66
joint committee, 152C
temporary laws, duration to be specified, 81
third reading
amendments to bill must be merely verbal, 77
amendments to question, 62
amendment to leave out 'now', 31(1)
bill considered in Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 113
bill considered in Scottish Grand Committee, 97
Wales, relating to,
standing committee composition, 86(2)(ii),
92(2)(proviso)
Welsh Grand Committee, and, 106
ways and means resolution, brought in on, exempted, 15(1)(a)
Broadcasting, Select Committee on, 139
Budget Day, and ten-minute rule bills, 23(3)
Business Committee, 82
Business of the House. See also Private Business
arrangement of, 14, 27
earlier meeting of House, at, 13(2)
exemption motions, 15(2)-(6)
government business has precedence, 14(1)
interruption of, 9(3)
opposed, when taken after moment of interruption, 9(6),
15(1)
opposition parties, 14(2)-(3)
order of, 9
not reached or not disposed of, 9(5)
private Members', 14(4)-(8)
Business Sub-Committees, 120
Carry-over of bills, Appendix
Catering Committee, 142
Chairman of Ways and Means, 2, 3.See
also Committee of the whole House; Deputy Speaker
Business Committee, and, 82
member of Chairmen's Panel, 4(2)
private business, and, 20
requests Temporary Chairmen to take Chair, 4(1)
Chairmen
Church of England Measures, 118(4)(b)
Clauses, see under Bills, public
Clerk at the Table
absence of Speaker, &c., notifies, 3
amendments to consolidation bills, receives, 58(2)
Lords bills, notified that Member will take charge, 14(7),
50(2), 57(3),
80(b)
orders of the day,
reads, 26
receives instructions to defer, 9(5)
petitions, reads, 154(3)
private Members' bills, receives nomination of another
Clerk of the House
petitions, and, 156
select committee reports, and, 134
supervises ballot to elect Speaker, 1A
Closure of debate, 36
at interruption of business, 9(4)
majority required, 37
standing committees, in, 89(3)(b)
temporary chairman may not accept, 85(5)
Command papers, presentation of, 158
Committee of the whole House
chairman
leaves chair, 70
at 11 a.m. on Fridays, 11(5)
temporary, 4(1)
closure of debate, 36
committal of bills to, 63(2), (3)
debate on clause or schedule standing part, 68
dilatory motions, 34, 35
disorderly conduct, 43, 44
divisions in, 38-40
instructions to, 66
interruption of business, 9(3)
irrelevance or repetition, 42
motions to commit a bill to, 63(2), (3)
motions to propose question in, 29
order of the day for, procedure on, 66
private sittings, motions for, 163
reports from, 70, 71
selection of amendments, 32(2)-(4)
Committees, grand, see Nothern Ireland Grand Committee; Scottish
Grand Committee; Welsh Grand Committee
Committees, joint
Consolidation, &c., Bills, 140
Human Rights, 152B
motions to commit bills to, 63(2)
Statutory Instruments, 151
Tax Simplification Bills, 152C
Committees, private bill, service of suspended Member on, 44(5)
Committees, second reading, see under Committees, standing
Committees, select. See also names of particular committees chairmen
joint sittings, for, 137A(1)(d)
term limits for, 122A
committal of bill to, 63(2)
documents, withdrawal or alteration of, 127
evidence, communication to other committees, other Parliaments etc.,
137A(1)(a)
evidence, publication before reporting to House, 136
joint meetings, 137A
quorum at, 124(2)
lists of members, 122
Lords, Members as witnesses before, 138
Members not on committee, withdrawal of, 126
memoranda, authorising of publishing, 135
minutes of evidence
members' names recorded in, 130, 131
power to report, 133
minutes of proceedings, 129
members' names for attendance and voting, 128
nomination of, 121
Liaison Committee membership, Appendix
motions at commencement of public business, 23(1)
opposed motions for
oath or affirmation, 132
quorum, 124
reports
advance copies of, 134
debates on, in Westminster Hall, 10(13)
during adjournments, 137
joint, 137A
power to make, 133
sittings during adjournment, 123
strangers
witnesses' names, publication of, 135
working with other committees, 137A
Committees, standing
adjournment of, 88(2)
amendments (referral and selection), 89(3)(a)
business sub-committees, 120
chairmen, 85
special standing committee, 91(2)
closure, 89(3)(b)
constitution and membership, 84, 86
debate on clause or schedule standing part, 89(3)(c)
delegated legislation, 118
dilatory motions, 89(3)(c)
division in House, sitting suspended for, 89(4)
European, 119
government bills, precedence and arrangement, 84(3),
(4), 101(2)
irrelevance or repetition, 89(3)(c)
law officers, attendance of, 87(1)
meetings, 88 See also Northern Ireland, Scottish and Welsh Grand Committees
ministers, attendance of, 87(2)
minutes of proceedings of, 89(3)(d), (5),
128, 129
quorum, 89(1), (3)(d), 117(4),
119(4). See also Northern Ireland, Scottish
and Welsh Grand Committees
Regional Affairs, Standing Committee on, 117
report stage, for, 92
second reading committee, 90
Law Commission bills, 59
tax law rewrite bills, 60
Scottish, 101
special standing committee, 91
strangers, admission of, 89(2), 91(1)
Wales, bills relating to, for, 86(2)(i),
92(2)(proviso)
Consolidated Fund Bills, proceedings on, 56
committal procedure does not apply, 63(1)
Consolidation, &c., Bills, 58
Crown. See also Ministers; Queen's Recommendation
Debts to, releasing or compounding, require resolution, 49
Culture, Media and Sport Committee, 152
Debate. See also Anticipation rule; Closure; Dilatory motions;
Disorder; Second speaches; Short speaches.
motions to adjourn, 34,35
Defence Committee, 152
Delegated Legislation
debates in House, 16
Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments, 151
negative procedure, 17
Northern Ireland Grand Committee, 114, 115
Northern Ireland consolidation legislation, 140(1)(f)
notification of instruments not laid, 160
presentation of, 159
Regulatory Reform Committee, 141
regulatory reform orders, 18
remedial orders, 152B
Scottish Grand Committee, 98
standing committees, 118
Deputy Chairmen, 2, 3.
See also Committee of Whole House
members of Chairmen's Panel, 4(2)
Deputy Speaker, see also Speaker; Chairman of Ways and
Means.
earlier meeting of House, summons, 13(3)
leaves chair when Speaker to be elected, 1
powers, 3
selection of amendments, 32
Westminster Hall, 10(4), (5)
Deregulation, see Regulatory Reform
Dilatory motions, 34
Disorder
Speaker's powers, 43-46
strangers, by, 161
Divisions, 38-39
deferred, Appendix
members voting to be listed (committees), 89(3)(d),
128
quorum, 41
standing committee sitting suspended for, 89(4)
unnecessarily claimed, 40
Domestic Committees, 142
Education and Employment Committee, 152
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