The Standing Orders of the House of Lords

The Standing Orders of the House of Lords	House of Lords

THE STANDING ORDERS OF THE HOUSE OF LORDS RELATING TO PUBLIC BUSINESS
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
9.	Hereditary Peers
10.	Hereditary Peers: By-elections
10.	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.	The Lord Chancellor
	General observances
20.	Order in the House
21.	Judges
22.	Lords not to converse whilst the House is upon business
23.	Leave of absence
24.	Lords not to answer accusations in the House of Commons
25.	Lords' attendance at Commons Select Committees
26.	Messages between the two Houses
	Debates
27.	Lords to speak standing
28.	Speeches to be addressed to House
29.	Every Motion to be proposed from Woolsack or Chair before debate thereon and debate to be relevant to last Question proposed
30.	No speaking after Question put
31.	No Lord to speak more than once to a Motion
32.	Leave of the House
33.	Asperity of speech to be avoided
34.	Quarrels, To prevent
35.	Starred Questions
36.	Private Notice Questions and Statements
37.	Unstarred Questions and Motions
38.	Balloted and time-limited Debates
39.	Consistency of amendments
	Arrangement of Business
40.	Order of Business
41.	Arrangement of the Order Paper
42.	Business of which notice is not necessary
43.	Postponement and advancement of business
44.	Notices not to be placed on Order Paper more than one month ahead
45.	Questions for written answer
46.	Precedence of adjourned business
	Bills
47.	No two stages of a Bill to be taken on one day
48.	Commitment of Bills
49.	Amendments on Third Reading
50.	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
51.	Printing of Bills brought from the Commons
52.	Joint Committee on Consolidation Bills
53.	No clause to be annexed to a Bill of Aid or Supply foreign to the matter
	Divisions
54.	Divisions
55.	Votes counted in the House
56.	Voting in wrong lobby
57.	Equality of votes
58.	Quorum for division on Bills and subordinate legislation
59.	Division Lists
60.	Protests
61.	Proxies not be revived
	Committees
62.	Chairman of Committees
63.	Committees of the Whole House
64.	Committee of Selection
65.	Sessional Committees
66.	All Lords may attend and speak, but not vote
67.	Power to hear Counsel
68.	Concurrent meetings
69.	Reports of Select Committees
	Parliamentary Papers
70.	Presentation of Command Papers
71.	Laying of Statutory Instruments
72.	Notifications
73.	Affirmative Instruments
	Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
74.	Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments
	Public Petitions
75.	Public Petitions
	Proceedings at opening and close of a Parliament or session
76.	Proceedings upon opening the Parliament
77.	Proroguing the Parliament at close of session
	Committee for Privileges and claims of Peerage
78.	Committee for Privileges
79.	Claims of Peerage
80.	Claims of Irish Peerages
81.	Claims of Irish Peerages in abeyance
82.	Report of Committee for Privileges if improper arrangement entered into between co-heirs
	Privilege
83.	Freedom from arrest
84.	Minor Peers, etc.
85.	Concerning examining witnesses in perpetuam rei memoriam
86.	No oath to take away the privilege of Peerage
	Judicial Business
87.	Appellate and Appeal Committees
	Making or suspending of Standing Orders
88.	Standing Orders not be made or dispensed with without notice
	APPENDIX
	The Act "for placing of the Lords"
	INDEX
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Revised 13 November 2002