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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 16

IV.—Lapsed Questions

IV.—Lapsed Questions.

How debates when superseded by counting out, &c. may be resumed.

82. If a debate on any Motion or Order of the Day be superseded by the Council page 19 being counted out or adjourned, such Motion or Order may be restored to the paper for a future day, on motion upon notice, and then such debate shall be resumed at the point where it was interrupted.
83. If the discussion on any question in a

Procedure if interrupted by motion being carried to "report progress" or "to leave the chair."

Committee of the whole Council be interrupted by a motion being carried "That the Chairman report progress," he shall, on reporting progress, ask leave to sit again; and if the discussion be interrupted by a motion being carried "That the Chairman do now leave the Chair," the Council may order the resumption of such Committee on a future day, on motion upon notice; and in either case the discussion of such question shall be resumed at the point where it was so interrupted.
84. All Notices of Motion and Orders of

Motions and orders not called on, how dealt with.

the Day not called on during the day for which they are set down, shall be placed before the Motions and Orders of the Day for the next day on which the Council shall sit, subject to the provisions made in Order No. 29.
85. When a debate on any Motion is interrupted

When debate interrupted by adjournment at half-past five.

by the adjournment of the Council at half-past five p.m., then if the Orders of the Day are proceeded with at seven o'clock p.m., such interrupted debate shall, unless otherwise ordered, have precedence of page 20 the Motions for the following day; but such debate may, by leave of the Council, be resumed either on the Council resuming at seven o'clock, or after the Orders of the Day have been disposed of.