October 29, 2009
Hon. Peter Milliken
Consideration in committee: motions of instruction; empowering a committee to divide a bill and imposing deadline for reporting one of the two new bills back to the House
The Speaker: I am now prepared to rule on the point of order raised by the hon. Parliamentary Secretary to the Government House Leader on October 8, 2009, regarding the admissibility of the motion...
The Speaker ruled that a motion of instruction to a committee is in order even with a reporting deadline, as long as the deadline is contingent on the committee's permissive choice to act on the instruction.