Section 94

All questions in Select Committees shall be decided by a majority of votes.

No Member may speak to a question after the same has been fully put by the

Chairman.

The question is fully put when the Chairman has collected the voices both of the

“Ayes” and of the “Noes”.

When the Chairman has put the question he shall collect the voices of the “Ayes”

and “Noes” and provided that no Member then claims a division, shall declare the result.

Every division in a Select Committee shall be taken by the Clerk to the

Committee asking each Member of the Committee separately how he desires to vote and recording the votes accordingly.

In taking the division, the names of all Members of the Committee shall be called in alphabetical order.

When a division is claimed, it shall be taken by voices “Ayes” and “Noes”. The

Clerk to the Committee shall enter in the Minutes of Proceedings a record of each Member’s vote and of the names of Members who abstain from voting. A member shall not vote in a manner inconsistent with any opinion which he may have expressed when the voices were taken collectively.

As soon as the Clerk has collected the votes the Chairman shall state the number of Members voting for the “Ayes” and “Noes” respectively and shall then declare the result of the division. The Chairman shall vote in the same manner and to the same extent as is permitted to him when in the Assembly or in the

Committee of the whole Assembly. When on a division the votes are equal, the question shall pass in the negative.

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If a Member of the Committee states that he voted in error or that his vote has been wrongly counted he may claim to have his vote altered, provided that such request is made as soon as the Chairman has announced the numbers and before he shall have declared the result of the division.

The provisions of Standing Order No. 60 (Procedure to disallow vote of Member having a direct personal pecuniary interest) shall apply to divisions under this

Standing Order.