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Arrangement of Business |
Order of Business.
26 March 1852. |
40 Except as provided in Standing Order No. 42(3), the House shall proceed with the Notices and Orders of the Day in the order in which they stand in the Order Paper.
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Arrangement of the Order Paper.
1 June 1954. |
41 Notices shall be entered in the Order Paper in the order in which they are received at the Table, provided that:
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(1) Starred Questions shall be entered before other business, except on Thursdays, when business other than Unstarred Questions may be entered before Starred Questions.
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(2) Notices relating to Private Business may be entered before Public Business. At the discretion of the Chairman of Committees they may also be entered later in the Order Paper.
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(3) Subject to paragraph (1), notices relating to the Business of the House and to the Chairman of Committees' Business, if he so desires, shall have priority over other Public Business except Starred Questions.
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(4) On all sitting days except Wednesdays, notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures, Affirmative Instruments and reports from Select Committees of the House shall have precedence over other notices and orders save the foregoing.
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(5) On Wednesdays, notices of Motions shall have precedence over notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures and delegated legislation.
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(6) Any motion relating to a report from the Delegated Powers and Regulatory Reform Committee on a draft order laid under the Regulatory Reform Act 2001 shall be entered before a motion to approve that draft order.
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(7) Any motion relating to a report from the Joint Committee on Human Rights on a remedial order or draft remedial order laid under Schedule 2 to the Human Rights Act 1998 shall be entered before a motion to approve that order or draft order.
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(8) Subject to paragraphs (4) to (7) the precedence of notices and orders relating to Public Bills, Measures, Affirmative Instruments and reports from Select Committees of the House may be varied on any day, if the convenience of the House so requires.
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(9) Unstarred Questions shall be entered last.
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Business of which notice is not necessary.
1 June 1954. |
42. - (1) Messages from the Crown may be delivered without notice at the beginning of a sitting or at any time during a sitting and may, upon Motion, be taken into consideration forthwith.
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(2) Messages from the House of Commons may be received at any time during a sitting without interruption of business.
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(3) Bills may be presented either at the beginning or end of Public Business. On Thursdays Bills may also be presented after Starred Questions in the afternoon. Bills brought from the House of Commons may be read the First time at any convenient time during Public Business.
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(4) Commons amendments to Bills and Commons Reasons may be considered without notice at any convenient time during Public Business.
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(5) The Oath of Allegiance should be taken at the beginning of business after Prayers, or at the end of business before the adjournment.
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(6) Other business of which notice is not necessary may be disposed of at any time by leave of the House.
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Postponement and advancement of business.
26 March 1852. |
43. - (1) A notice on the Order Paper may be withdrawn or postponed to a later date at the request of the Lord in whose name it stands, but except for Starred Questions and Unstarred Questions no notice shall be advanced to an earlier date than that for which it had been set down, without the leave of the House obtained on a Motion of which notice must be given in the Order Paper.
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(2) If a Lord be absent at the appointed time for the House to enter upon consideration of his Motion or Question, and has not authorised another Lord to take his place, it shall not be proceeded with until after notice thereof is renewed, unless unanimous leave is granted by the House.
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(3) Business may, on motion, be postponed to later the same day without notice: provided that the Question shall not be put on any such motion if a single Lord objects.
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Notices not to be placed on Order Paper more than one month ahead.
23 July 1934. |
44. - (1) No notice of a Question or Motion, other than a Motion relating to a Public Bill or Order, shall be put upon the Order Paper for a date more than one month ahead, but a Lord may give notice of a Motion or Question without fixing a date for the same.
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(2) Except in the case of Starred Questions, the period of one month shall not include any time during which the House is in Recess.
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Questions for written answer.
1 June 1954. |
45. A Question to which an answer in writing is desired may be placed on the Order Paper under the heading "For Written Answer". The reply shall be printed in the Official Report; it may be given on any sitting day including that on which the Question is handed in.
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Precedence of adjourned business.
22 March 1889. |
46. If at the close of the speech of any Lord it shall be moved that the business then in hand be adjourned, or, the House being in Committee, that the House be resumed, and it shall be so ordered, it shall be lawful for the House thereupon, without notice given, to make further order that the business in question shall be taken first, either at some later hour of the evening, or on some future sitting day to be then fixed.
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