Section 88

There shall be a sessional Select Committee to be known as the Standing

Committee, appointed as soon as practicable after the beginning of the every session.

The Committee shall consists of the Speaker as Chairman and seven Members to be appointed by the Assembly in such manner as shall ensure that as far as is possible, the balance between the Government benches and the Opposition benches in the Assembly is reflected in the Committee.

It shall be the duty of the Committee to consider from time to time and report on all matters relating to the Standing Orders. If a notice of motion involves any proposal for the amendment of any Standing Order, the notice shall be accompanied by a draft of the proposed amendment and the motion when proposed shall stand referred, without any question being proposed thereon, to the Committee, and no further proceedings shall be taken on any such motion until the Committee has reported thereon.

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It shall also be the duty of the Committee to consider and advise the Speaker upon all matters connected with and relating to the comfort and convenience of

Members.

It shall also be the duty of the Committee to consider all petitions referred to it under the provisions of Standing Order No. 18 (Petitions), to classify such petitions, prepare abstracts thereof in such form and manner as shall appear to its best suited to convey to the Assembly al requisite information respecting their contents and the signatures attached thereto, and to report the same from time to time to the Assembly.

The Committee shall also perform the functions allotted to it by these Standing

Orders and shall consider and report on all other matters as the Assembly may from time to time refer to it.

The Committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records.