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June 21, 1972
It is prohibited to redirect an amount in a manner other than that approved or recommended to the House in the Royal Recommendation.
A ruling confirms that private members' bills cannot redirect funds beyond the scope of the original Royal Recommendation from the Crown.
May 16, 1972
The motions in amendment are out of order because they involve additional expenditures and thus infringe on the Crown's financial initiative. A private Member may not introduce a bill or an...
The Speaker ruled amendments out of order for proposing new spending without a Royal Recommendation, violating the Crown's financial initiative.
April 20, 1971
Questions Related to Content of Bills / Infringing on Financial Initiative of the Crown April 20, 1971 Journals p. 493 Debates pp. 5096-7 Background During private Members' hour, the Deputy...
Analysis based on the procedural concept 'infringing on the financial initiative of the Crown' as the provided text was not a complete ruling.
December 7, 1970
No Member, including a member of the Cabinet, can introduce a public bill that implies the expenditure of public funds without a Royal Recommendation. His Excellency recommended a government bill...
The Speaker ruled that a Royal Recommendation for a withdrawn government bill cannot be transferred to another bill.
October 20, 1970
Since the Chair did not have the opportunity to examine each bill in detail, it is suggested that the House follow the procedure agreed upon in several recent sessions: by unanimous consent, all...
The Speaker outlines a process to grant private Members' bills first reading by consent while deferring scrutiny of procedural defects until before second reading.
January 19, 1970
It would appear that there is a difference between the two texts of the proposed bill. However, in this particular case it seems that the difference is more of form than of substance. Nonetheless,...
The Speaker rules that a textual discrepancy in a bill is a matter for the committee stage, not for the Chair to resolve at second reading.
November 10, 1969
Although the Standing Orders provide for the introduction of bills during Routine Proceedings, they do not allow for a motion to empower a committee to draw up a bill, nor is there any precedent...
The Speaker ruled a private member's motion to have a committee draft a bill out of order as it was procedurally unprecedented and exceeded the member's notice limit.
June 17, 1969
The motion in amendment "proposes an increase in the amount of a loan that may be made under the provisions of the bill... An amendment infringes on the financial initiative of the Crown not only...
A ruling declares an amendment inadmissible for infringing on the financial initiative of the Crown by attempting to increase a loan amount in a bill.
November 13, 1967
The bill does not fall within the definition of a money bill which requires that a charge must be new and distinct, and effectively imposed. Any expenditure resulting from the adoption of the bill...
The Speaker ruled that a private member's bill was not a money bill as its expenditures were covered by an existing statute.
March 16, 1967
No private bill shall be studied in Committee of the Whole without a special reference. The House may make whatever decisions it wishes, but it would be "abnormal" to proceed with the Member's...
The Speaker ruled that referring a private bill to the Committee of the Whole without a special reference is an abnormal procedure contrary to the Standing Orders.