Section 2
Time for Sittings
of State Legislative Assembly Standing Orders
(1)
(a)
Every sitting shall begin at 10.00 a.m. and unless the Assembly has been previously adjourned, shall continue until 5.15 p.m. (hereinafter referred to as “the time appointed for the termination of a sitting”).
(b)
At anytime if the time allocated under the Standing Order 2 (1) is not sufficient, a Minister or Assistant Minister may move a motion at any time between 4.00 – 4.15 pm that no motion of adjournment of the House may be moved until additional time to be specified and after which the
Assembly would be adjourned.
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(2)
(a)
Any sitting may be decision of the Assembly, upon a motion moved without notice, be suspended at any time after 12.30 p.m. and when so suspended, shall be resumed at 2.15 p.m.
(b)
Any sitting may be suspended at any time, by the Speaker for a period not exceeding three hours.
Moment of Interruption
(3)
(1)
At 4.15 p.m. (referred to in these Standing Orders as “the moment of interruption”), except as hereinafter provided, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall be interrupted and if the
Assembly be in Committee, the Chairman shall leave the Chair and the
Member in charge of the business shall report progress and ask leave to sit again; and if a motion has been made for the adjournment of the
Assembly or of the debate, or in Committee, that the Chairman do report progress or do leave the Chair, every such motion shall lapse.
(2)
The business under consideration at the moment of interruption shall be deferred to the next sitting day, unless the Member in charge of that item of business shall thereupon name to the Speaker a different sitting day on which that item of business shall again be placed upon the Order Paper.
(3)
The remaining items of business shall stand over until the next sitting day, unless the Member in charge of any particular item of business shall have named to the Clerk, at any time prior to the termination of the sitting, a different sitting day on which that item of business shall again be placed upon the Order Paper.
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(4)
At the moment of interruption the closure may be moved or if proceedings for the closure are already in progress at that time the Speaker or
Chairman shall not interrupt the business until the question consequent upon the moving of the closure and any further question as provided in
Standing Order 48 (Closure of Debate) have been decided. Immediately such questions have been decided the other provisions of this Standing
Order shall come into force.
Adjournment