Procedure in Select Committees

“81. (1) If the Chairman is unable to be present at any meeting, the Committee shall elect another Chairman whose tenure of office shall be for the day of his election.

(2) Unless the Assembly otherwise directs, the Standing Orders Committee shall not have, but every other Select Committee shall have, power to send for persons, papers and records.

(3) A Select Committee shall not have power to delegate any of its functions to its Chairman or any other member.

(4) Unless the Assembly otherwise directs, three members shall be the quorum. In ascertaining whether there is a quorum present, the Member in the Chair shall not be excluded.

(5) The deliberations of a Select Committee shall be confined to the matter referred to it by the Assembly and any extension or limitation thereof made by the Assembly, and, in the case of a Select Committee on a Bill, to the Bill committed to it and relative amendments.

(6) Where, by resolution of the Assembly or under these Standing Orders, the Presiding Officer or a Secretary is Chairman of a Select Committee, the Presiding Officer or the Secretary shall appoint the time and place for the holding of the first meeting of the Committee. In all other cases, the first meeting of a Select Committee shall be summoned by the Presiding Officer and the first business to be transacted thereat shall be the Election of a Chairman of the Committee, if at such meeting a Chairman is not elected, the Presiding Officer shall appoint a member of the Committee to be the Chairman.”