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April 23, 1974
"... even with the wildest imagination", the Member's comments have nothing to do with the bill under consideration. Members must limit themselves to the principle of the bill before the House.
The Speaker sustained a point of order, ruling a Member's comments irrelevant to the bill at second reading.
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.
March 20, 1974
The original Student Loans Act was adopted in 1964 and the Royal Recommendation which preceded it had force and effect for that session only. It would not be procedurally acceptable to suggest...
The Speaker ruled that a Royal Recommendation is session-specific and cannot be used to authorize a new bill imposing a financial charge in a subsequent session.
December 20, 1973
The Standing Orders provide for a substantive proposition to be considered by the House. This cannot be done, however, by way of a recommendation from a committee studying a bill. "... there is no...
This ruling establishes that a committee studying a bill can only report the bill itself, with any changes being formal amendments, not separate recommendations.
December 13, 1973
There is no precedent for dividing a motion preceding a bill. "... there are a large number of... precedents which indicate that a notice of a ways and means motion refers not to one single...
The Speaker ruled that a Ways and Means motion cannot be divided, citing a lack of precedent and long-established practice.
December 10, 1973
The House should "reaffirm the proposition that such proposals, when they are clearly intended to amend existing legislation, should come to the House by way of an amending bill rather than as an...
This ruling establishes that using dollar items in the Estimates to amend legislation is procedurally improper and requires a separate amending bill.
November 5, 1973
The proposed motion is beyond the scope of the bill. Furthermore, if the motion were accepted, nothing in the bill could give effect to it as additional legislation and amendments would be...
The Speaker ruled a motion inadmissible because it was beyond the scope of the bill under consideration.
September 18, 1973
Questions Related to Content of Bills / Infringing on Financial Initiative of the Crown September 18, 1973 Journals pp. 561-2 Debates p. 6690 Background On January 18, the Speaker proposed to...
The provided text is a procedural phrase, not a complete ruling, and cannot be analyzed.
September 13, 1973
"A bill, or an amendment to a bill cannot propose the expenditure of fonds without a recommendation of the Crown." Since the present bill is not accompanied by a Royal Recommendation, it cannot be...
The Speaker ruled a private member's bill out of order because it proposed spending public money without a required Royal Recommendation.