Search thousands of Speaker's rulings with AI-powered precision.
April 23, 1975
"No amendment can exceed the terms of [a Royal Recommendation] regardless of by whom it is moved, and no action taken by the House, by any Member of the House, by any standing committee, and least...
The Speaker rules that amendments cannot exceed a Royal Recommendation and the Chair cannot unilaterally send a bill back to committee.
April 14, 1975
Questions / Oral Questions April 14, 1975 Journals pp. 439-41 Debates pp. 4762-4 Background On April 7, 1975, an experiment in procedure, designating a fixed time for the Question Period, began....
Analysis failed as the provided text was not a Speaker's Ruling.
April 10, 1975
Amendments to the Content of Bills / Report Stage April 10, 1975 Journals pp. 429-30 Debates pp. 4703-4 Background During debate at the report stage of Bill C-13, an Act to amend the Northern...
The provided text is a topic heading about the acceptability of amendments to motions and is not a specific Speaker's Ruling.
April 10, 1975
Amendments to the Content of Bills / Report Stage April 10, 1975 Journals p. 431 Debates p. 4709 Background On March 26, at the beginning of debate at the report stage of Bill C-13, an Act to...
The Speaker ruled an amendment out of order because it was found to be irrelevant to the bill and beyond its established scope.
April 8, 1975
Content of Bills / Infringing on Financial Initiative of the Crown April 8, 1975 Journals pp. 420-1 Debates p. 4615 Background Prior to allowing debate on the second reading motion of Bill C-234,...
The Speaker ruled a private Member's bill out of order for infringing on the financial initiative of the Crown by proposing an expenditure without a royal recommendation.
February 27, 1975
There is nothing either in the precedents or the Standing Orders which bears directly on the point of a Member of this House voluntarily appearing before a Senate committee. The Chair can find no...
The Speaker ruled that while Members can appear before Senate committees, they are strictly warned not to reflect on or criticize decisions made by the House of Commons.
February 11, 1975
Amendments and Subamendments to Motions / Subamendment Relevant to Amendment February 11, 1975 Journals p. 286 Debates pp. 3121-2 Background During debate on an amendment proposed to the second...
The Speaker ruled a subamendment out of order because it was not strictly relevant to the main amendment.
January 28, 1975
The subject matter of the motion can hardly be described as an emergency. As the Member himself put it, the court's decision has aggravated a situation which has already existed for a long time....
The Speaker denied a request for an emergency debate, citing the long-standing nature of the issue and the sub judice convention.
April 2, 1974
Amendments to the Content of Bills / Report Stage April 2, 1974 Journals p. 90 Debates pp. 1101-2 Background On April 1, as the House proceeded to the report stage consideration of Bill C-5, an...
A ruling that an amendment is out of order because it is equivalent to a direct negative of the bill.
April 1, 1974
Rules of Debate / Relevance April 1, 1974 Debates p. 1039 Background During report stage consideration of Bill C-5, an Act to authorize the provision of moneys to meet certain capital expenditures...
The provided text 'Report stage' is a procedural label indicating a stage of the legislative process, not a Speaker's Ruling.