Procedure on Bills reported from Select committee

“65. (1) When a Bill has been reported from a Select Committee, the Assembly may proceed to consider the Bill as reported from the Select Committee upon a motion “That the report of the Select Committee on the ………… Bill be adopted; moved under paragraph (8) of the Standing Order No. 80 (Reports of Select Committees)”.

(2) If that motion is agreed to without amendment, the Assembly may proceed to the third reading of the Bill as reported from the Select Committee.

(3) Upon a motion of approve the report of the Select committee on a Bill any member may propose an amendment to add, at the end of the motion, the words “subject to the recommittal of the Bill (either wholly or in respect only of some particular part or parts of the bill or of some proposed new clause or new Schedule) to a Committee of the Whole Assembly”, and if that motion is agreed to with such an amendment, the Bill shall stand so recommitted and the Assembly may then resolve itself into Committee to consider the business so recommitted.

(4) A Committee of the Whole Assembly upon a Bill recommitted under the provisions of this Standing Order shall proceed in accordance with paragraph (2) of paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 59 (Recommittal of Bills reported from Committee of the Whole Assembly), and the conclusion of its proceedings and the remaining proceedings on the Bill shall be subject to paragraph (4) of that Order.”

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