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March 10, 1966
The motion to adjourn is a superseding motion and it can only be moved when there is something before the House. At the moment, there is nothing before the House. Moreover, a Member cannot rise...
A Speaker's ruling clarifies that a conditional motion to adjourn is a substantive motion requiring notice and cannot be moved as a superseding motion when no business is before the House.
March 10, 1966
The rule is designed to cover the type of issue that the Member is seeking to raise at the present time. To suspend the operation of this rule in this instance would require the unanimous consent...
The Speaker rules that unanimous consent is required to suspend the relevant rule for the matter a Member wishes to raise.
March 9, 1966
This type of objection is better dealt with during Oral Questions, addressed directly to a Minister. ''A Minister may decline to answer a question without stating the reason for his refusal, and...
A ruling confirms that a minister's refusal to answer a question during Oral Questions is not a valid basis for a question of privilege or point of order.
March 1, 1966
The Chamber is the sole judge of the lawfulness of its own proceedings, and "this holds even where the procedure of a House or the right of its Members or Officers to take part in its proceedings...
This ruling establishes that the House, not the Speaker, is the sole judge of its own proceedings and a member's right to vote.
February 22, 1966
''A motion opposing second reading of a bill must not anticipate amendments which may be moved in committee." A Member may move an amendment relating to the principle of a bill before the House,...
A ruling clarifying that amendments at second reading must address the bill's principle, not specific clauses which are reserved for committee.
February 18, 1966
Although this practice has been embodied in the rules of the House since 1965, the House should, in general, be guided not so much by the literal construction of the Orders as by what has been its...
The Speaker rules that established House practice allowing smaller party responses to ministerial statements supersedes the literal text of the Standing Orders.
January 24, 1966
"A subamendment should not enlarge upon the scope of the amendment but it should deal with matters that are not covered by the amendment." Many subamendments moved in similar circumstances have...
The Speaker ruled a subamendment out of order for being beyond the scope of the amendment it sought to modify.
January 24, 1966
Since it would be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, for the Chair to examine each bill at this time, it is suggested that the House follow the procedure agreed upon in each of the past...
The Speaker proposed using unanimous consent to give all Private Members' Bills first reading and deferring the procedural review to a later stage.