Amendments or Motion , Notice of

“32. (1) Where under any Standing Order, notice of a motion or of an amendment is required, such notice shall be given in writing, signed by the member and addressed to the Clerk, and such notice shall be handed to the Clerk or sent to, or left at, the Clerk’s office during the hours prescribed for the purpose.

(2) If the Presiding Officer is of the opinion that any notice of motion which has been received by the Clerk impinges the provisions of any Standing Orders or is in any other way out of order, he may direct: (a) that the member concerned be informed that the notice of the motion is out of order; or (b) that the notice of the motion be entered in the Order Book with such alteration as he may direct.

(3) Not more than three notices of motion in the name of the same member may be entered on the Order Paper of any sitting. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to a member who is Secretary or an Assistant Secretary.

(4) Copies of motions and amendments sent to the Clerk shall be circulated by him to members whether or not they be matters of which notice is required, and, in the case of the amendments of Bills or Assembly Laws, shall be arranged, so far as may be, in the order in which they will be proposed.

(5) No debate shall take place on the giving of notice of any matter.”