Section 72

If any Member desires to delete or amend any provisions contained in a Bill as reported from a Committee to the whole Assembly or to introduce any new provisions therein he may, at any time before a Member rises to move the third reading of the Bill, give notice either:-

When a Member has given notice that he wishes to proposes amendments to the

Bill at large, the whole shall stand recommitted.

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When a Member has given notice that he wishes to propose amendments to any particular part or parts of the Bill or to introduce any new clause or new schedule, the Bill shall stand recommitted in respect only of such particular part or parts of the Bill and of any such new clause or new schedule.

Upon a Bill being recommitted under the provisions either or paragraph (2) or of paragraph (3) of this Order, the Assembly shall thereupon either, with the general assent of Members present to dispensing with such notice as may be required for amendments under the provisions of paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 70

(Procedure in Committee of the whole Assembly on a Bill) forthwith or failing such assent, upon a future sitting day to be named by the Member in charge of the Bill, resolve itself into a Committee to consider the business so recommitted.

When the whole Bill has been recommitted, the Committee shall go through the

Bill as provided in Standing Order No. 70 (Procedure in Committee of the whole

Assembly on a Bill).

Immediately a Bill has been recommitted in respect only of some particular part or parts of the Bill or some proposed new clause or new schedule, the Speaker shall call upon any Member who wishes to propose any other amendment or to propose any other new clause or new schedule to give notice thereof, and

(subject to the provisions of paragraph (4) of this Order) any part or parts of the

Bill affected by any such amendment or any new clause or new schedule notice of which is received at any time before the Assembly resolves itself into a

Committee on the recommitted matter, shall also stand referred to the

Committee, and the Committee shall consider all matters recommitted to it under the provisions of paragraph (3) of this Order and of this paragraph and any amendment which may be proposed thereto.

At the conclusion of the proceedings in the Committee, the Chairman shall say,

“Bill to be reported”.

So soon as the Bill is to be reported from the Committee, the provisions of

Standing Order No. 71 (Procedure on Bills reported from a Committee of the

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whole Assembly) shall apply; but, except with the general assent of Members present, no further notice of amendment in relation to the Bill under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this Order shall be received.