Section 31
Manner of giving notices
of State Legislative Assembly Standing Orders
(1)
Where under any Standing Order (or the practice of the Assembly) notice is required such notice shall be given:-
(a)
When the Assembly is sitting by being handed to the Clerk at the Table;
or
(b)
When the Assembly is not sitting, by being handed in at the office of the
Clerk within the hours prescribed for the purposed.
(2)
A notice of any substantive motion to be moved in the Assembly shall be signed by the Member intending to move the motion and, in the case of private
Member’s motion, the notice may also be signed by a supporter or supporters not exceeding five in number.
(3)
Except where it is otherwise provided in any Standing Order, not less than seven clear days’ notice of any motion shall be given unless it is in the name of a
Minister, in which case two clear days’ notice shall be sufficient. Notwithstanding anything contained in these Standing Orders, if it is represented to the Speaker or in his absence the Deputy Speaker, by the Leader of the House that the public interest requires that a motion should be debated as soon as possible, and if the
Speaker or in his absence the Deputy Speaker is satisfied that the public interest so requires, one clear day’s notice of such motion shall be sufficient.
(4)
All notices shall if possible be printed and made available to Members not later than the day before the sitting for which they have been put down and the day which each notice is handed in shall be indicated.
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(5)
Any such notice shall be submitted to the Speaker or in his absence the Deputy
Speaker or in his absence such other person as the Speaker may designate, who shall direct:-
(a)
that it be printed in the terms in which it was handed in; or
(b)
that it be printed with such alteration as he may direct; or
(c)
that it be returned to the Member who intended to move it, as being in his opinion inadmissible for reasons stated.
(6)
Motions or amendments sent or handed to the Clerk shall be printed and circulated by him to members as soon as practicable.