CONTENTS
Standing
Order No.
ARRANGEMENTS WHEN HER MAJESTY IS PRESENT
1. Arrangements
when Her Majesty present.
LORDS AND THE MANNER OF THEIR INTRODUCTION
2. Lords
not to sit in Parliament before twenty-one.
3. Peers
by descent not to be introduced.
4. No
fee to be paid on introduction.
5. Difference
in form or style of writs.
6. Bishops
Lords of Parliament to be introduced.
7. Lords'
higher titles to be used.
8. Precedency.
EXCEPTED HEREDITARY PEERS
10. Hereditary
peers: by-elections.
11. Register
of hereditary peers.
THE HOUSE AND ITS ARRANGEMENTS
12. Right
to be present in House when sitting.
13. Duties
and powers of Black Rod.
14. Doorkeepers
not to stay within the House when sitting.
15. Secret
sittings.
16. Printing
or publication of proceedings.
17. Recall
of the House.
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
18. Speaker
of the House.
19. Election
of Lord Speaker
GENERAL OBSERVANCES
21. Lords
not to converse whilst the House is upon business.
22. Leave
of absence.
23. Lords
not to answer accusations in the House of Commons.
24. Lords'
attendance at Commons Select Committees.
25. Messages
between the two Houses.
DEBATES
26. Lords
to speak standing.
27. Speeches
to be addressed to House.
28. Every
Motion to be proposed from Woolsack or Chair before debate thereon
and debate to be relevant to last Question proposed.
29. No
speaking after Question put.
30. No
Lord to speak more than once to a Motion.
31. Leave
of the House.
32. Asperity
of speech to be avoided.
33. Quarrels,
To prevent.
34. Oral
Questions.
35. Private
Notice Questions and Statements.
36. Questions
for Short Debate and Motions.
37. Balloted
and time-limited Debates.
38. Consistency
of amendments.
ARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS
40. Arrangement
of the Order Paper.
41. Business
of which notice is not necessary.
42. Postponement
and advancement of business.
43. Notices
not to be placed on Order Paper more than one month ahead.
44. Questions
for written answer.
45. Precedence
of adjourned business.
BILLS
46. No
two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day.
47. Commitment
of Bills.
48. Amendments
on Third Reading.
49. Commons
Bills, if not taken up in twelve sitting days, to be dropped and
not to be further proceeded with except after eight days' notice.
50. Printing
of Bills brought from the Commons.
51. Joint
Committee on Consolidation Bills.
52. No
clause to be annexed to a Bill of Aid or Supply foreign to the
matter.
DIVISIONS
54. Votes
counted in the House.
55. Voting
in wrong lobby.
56. Equality
of votes.
57. Quorum
for division on Bills and subordinate legislation.
58. Division
Lists.
59. Protests.
60. Proxies
not to be revived.
COMMITTEES
61. Chairman
of Committees.
62. Committees
of the Whole House.
63. Committee
of Selection.
64. Sessional
Committees.
65. All
Lords may attend and speak, but not vote.
66. Power
to hear Counsel.
67. Concurrent
meetings.
68. Reports
of Select Committees.
PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS
69. Presentation
of Command Papers.
70. Laying
of Statutory Instruments.
71. Notifications.
72. Affirmative
Instruments.
JOINT COMMITTEE ON STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS
73. Joint
Committee on Statutory Instruments.
PUBLIC PETITIONS
PROCEEDINGS AT OPENING AND CLOSE OF A
PARLIAMENT OR SESSION
75. Proceedings
upon opening the Parliament.
76. Proroguing
the Parliament at close of session.
COMMITTEE FOR PRIVILEGES AND CONDUCT AND
CLAIMS OF PEERAGE
77. Committee
for Privileges and Conduct.
78. Claims
of Peerage.
79. Claims
of Irish Peerages.
80. Claims
of Irish Peerages in abeyance.
81. Report
of Committee for Privileges and Conduct if improper arrangement
entered into between co-heirs.
PRIVILEGE
83. Minor
Peers, etc., have no privilege.
84. Concerning
examining witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam.
85. No
oath to take away the privilege of Peerage.
MAKING OR SUSPENDING OF STANDING ORDERS
86. Standing
Orders not to be made or dispensed with without notice.
APPENDIX: The Act "for placing of
the Lords"
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