Section 39
Manner of debating amendments to motions
of State Legislative Assembly Standing Orders
(1)
Any amendment to a motion which a Member wishes to propose may be moved at any time after the question upon the motion has been proposed by the
Speaker or Chairman, and before it has been put by the Speaker or Chairman at the conclusion of the debate upon the motion. When every such amendment has been disposed of, the Speaker or Chairman shall either again propose the question as upon the motion or shall propose the question upon the motion as amended, as the case may require, and after any further debate which may arise thereon, shall put the question to the Assembly or Committee for its decision.
(2)
Debate upon an amendment to a motion shall be relevant to such amendment.
(3)
(a)
Upon any amendment to leave out any of the words of the motion, the question to be proposed shall be “That the words proposed to be left out of the question”. Debate shall be confined to the omission of such words.
(b)
Upon any amendment to insert words in or adds words at the end of a motion, the question to be proposed shall be “That those words be there inserted (or added)”. Debate shall be confined to the insertion or addition of such words.
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(c)
Upon any amendment to leave out any of the words of the motion and insert or add other words instead a question shall first be proposed “That the words proposed to be left out be left out of the question” and if the question is agreed to, the question shall then be proposed “That those words be there inserted (or added)”. If the first question is disagreed to, no further amendment may be proposed to the words which the Assembly or Committee has so decided shall not be left out. Debate upon the question “That the words proposed to be left out be left out of the question” may include both the words proposed to be left out and those proposed to be inserted or added.
(4)
If the Speaker or Chairman, before putting a question to leave out certain words is informed that a Member wishes to move an amendment to leave out part only of those words and if he is of opinion that the proposed amendment of which his so informed is substantially a new amendment, he shall, if possible put the question to leave out only so much of the original amendment as is unaffected by the second amendment; but if that question is agreed to , the whole of the words proposed in the original amendment to be left out shall be deemed to have been ordered to be left out.
(5)
When two or more amendments are proposed to be moved to the same motion, the Speaker or Chairman shall call upon the movers in the order in which their amendments relate to the text of the motion, or in cases of doubt in such order as the Chair shall decide; provided that no amendment may be moved which relates to any words which the Assembly or Committee has decided shall not be left out of the motion.
(6)
(a)
Any amendment to an amendment which a Member wishes to propose may be moved at any time after the question upon the original amendment has been proposed, and before it has been put at the conclusion of the debate on the original amendment.
(b)
The provisions of paragraphs (3), (4) and (5) of this Standing Order shall apply to the discussion of amendments to amendments, with the
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substitution of the words “original amendment” for the word “motion”
throughout.
(c)
When every such amendment to an amendment has been disposed of, the Speaker or Chairman shall either again propose the question upon the original amendment, or shall propose the question upon the original amendment as amended, as the case may require.