Section 11
Presiding in the Assembly or Committee of the whole Assembly
of State Legislative Assembly Standing Orders
(1)
When the Speaker is absent of there is any vacancy† in the office of Speaker, the
Clerk at the Table shall make an announcement to the effect, and thereupon the
Deputy Speaker (if one is elected or appointed) shall preside and shall be invested with all the powers of the Speaker.
(2)
During any absence of the Speaker of the Deputy Speaker from any sitting of the
Legislative Assembly, the Clerk at the Table shall make an announcement to that effect and a Member present (not being a Minister) shall be elected by the
Assembly to act as Speaker and shall be invested with all the powers of the
Speaker.
(3)
The Deputy Speaker shall take the Chair temporarily when requested so to do by the Speaker without any formal communication to the Assembly.
(4)
Whenever the Assembly resolves itself into a Committee of the whole Assembly, including the Committee of Supply, the Speaker of Member presiding in the
Assembly shall take the Chair as Chairman of the Committee of the whole
Assembly.
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(5)
In these Standing Orders, except where it is expressly provided otherwise, or unless the context otherwise requires, the expression “the Speaker” includes any person presiding in the Assembly, and the expression “the Speaker or (the)
Chairman” shall mean the Speaker or any person presiding in the Assembly or the Chairman when presiding in a Committee of the whole Assembly.
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