Section 25
Arrangement of Public Business
of State Legislative Assembly Standing Orders
(1)
Any Bill or other matter which the Assembly has ordered to be taken into consideration on a particular day shall be known as an order of the day. After a day has been so appointed, an earlier day shall not be substituted therefor. The
Member in charge, however, may either:-
(a)
before an order of the day is read, give notice in writing to the Clerk postponing the order to a later sitting day and the Bill or other matter shall thereupon become an order of the day for that day; or
(b)
upon an order of the day being read, name a later sitting day, and the Bill or other matter shall thereupon become an order of the day for that day.
(2)
On every sitting day, Government business shall have precedence over private
Member’s business.
(3)
Government business shall be set down in such order as the Cabinet think fit and communicate to the Clerk not less than two clear days before the sitting day.
(4)
Private Member’s business shall be set down in the following order:-
(a)
Adjourned debates in the order in which they were appointed under these
Standing Orders;
(b)
Bill and other orders of the day in the order in which they were appointed under these Standing Orders;
(c)
Notices of motion in the order firstly in which they were appointed under these Standing Orders and secondly in the order in which notice of each motion appeared in the Order Book.
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