Statement
June 27, 1986
Government response, effects of prorogation
Hon. John Bosley
Speaker of the House
Ruling Text
By virtue of the Standing Orders, the House has made a continuing order for the return of requested responses and has further ordered that such an order for return should survive prorogation.
Furthermore, the same reasoning can be applied in respect of responses to petitions, which by practice are tabled in the House..
Sources cited Standing Orders 99(2), 106(8), 121. Beauchesne, 5th ed., p. 150, c. 412.
Abraham and Hawtrey's Parliamentary Dictionary, 3rd ed. (London, 1970), p. 186.
References Debates, June 26, 1986, p. 14870.
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Holding
"The government's obligation to provide responses to both orders for return and petitions is not extinguished by the prorogation of a session of Parliament."
AI Summary
This ruling clarifies that government obligations to respond to orders for return and petitions are not cancelled by parliamentary prorogation.
AI Analysis
- Outcome
- Other
- Tone
- Educational
- Procedural Stage
- Not specified
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