The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 16
XII.—Instructions to Committees
XII.— Instructions to Committees.
201. An Instruction empowers a Committee
of the whole House to consider matters not otherwise referred to them.
Effect of an Instruction.
202. It is an Instruction to all Committees
of the whole House to whom Bills may be committed, that they have power to make such Amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject-matter of the Bill; but that if any such Amendments shall not be within the Title of the Bill, they do amend the Title accordingly, and do report the same specially to the House.
Committees on Bills to make Amendments relevant to subject-matter.
203. An Instruction to a Committee on
a Bill empowers the Committee to make provision therein; and may not be moved, if they already have power to make such provision.
What Instructions may not be moved.
204. An Instruction should ordinarily be
moved after the Order of the Day has been read, and not as an Amendment to the Question that Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair.
When to be moved.
205. An Instruction to a Select Committee
extends or restricts the Order of Reference.
Instruction to a Select Committee.