APPENDIX 1: CHANGES TO STANDING ORDERS
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Standing Order 19: Election and term of
office of Lord Speaker. 3 May 2006
19—(1)
The first election of the Lord Speaker shall be held no later
than 30th June 2006. Thereafter elections shall be held (a) no
more than five years after the previous election, or (b) within
three months of the death of the Lord Speaker, or his giving notice
of resignation, if sooner. If, after a date has been set in accordance
with (a) or (b), a Dissolution of Parliament is announced, the
applicable deadline shall be extended to one month after the opening
of the next Parliament.
19—(1) An election of a Lord Speaker shall
be held on 13th July 2011. Subsequently, elections shall, subject
to paragraphs (1A) and (1B), be held in the fifth calendar year
following that in which the previous election was held, on a day
no later than 15th July in that year. If the result of the election
is approved under paragraph (5), a Lord Speaker elected under
this paragraph shall take office on 1st September in the year
of election.
(1A) Where a Lord Speaker (including a person
elected as Lord Speaker who has not yet taken office) dies, resigns
or is deemed to have resigned pursuant to paragraph (8), an election
of a Lord Speaker shall, subject to paragraph (1B), be held within
three months of the death, the giving notice of resignation or
the deemed resignation. For the purposes of paragraph (1), this
election is then "the previous election".
(1B) Where a Dissolution of Parliament is announced
after a date has been set for an election, the election shall
take place either on the date originally set, or on a day no later
than one month after the opening of the next Parliament, whichever
is later.
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(8) If the House passes a motion for an Address to
Her Majesty seeking the Lord Speaker's removal from office, the
Lord Speaker shall be deemed to have resigned with effect from
the date on which the motion is passed.
Standing Order 43: Notices not to be placed on
the Order Paper more than one
month four
weeks ahead. 23 July 1934.
43.—(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 four weeks
ahead, but a Lord may give notice of a Motion or Question without
fixing a date for the same.
(2) Except in the case of Oral Questions, the period
of one month
four weeks shall not include any time during which the
House is in Recess.
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