Relevance (Amendment) Bill 2005

New Provision
311.4 RELEVANCE RULE Any post (other than a parliamentary question) in the assembly must be relevant to a bill or item before the assembly. Parliamentary questions are not debatable. Previous votes of the assembly in the current legislative term are not debatable except in terms of a motion for their repeal or consideration of a presidential veto.

311.5 ALLEGATIONS Allegations of incapacity, negligence, misconduct or improper motives are not debatable except in terms of a substantive motion allowing a separate and distinct vote on each allegation.

and that the Clearer Motions Rule be renumbered 311.6

Old Provision
311.4 RELEVANCY RULE Any post in the assembly must be relevant to a bill or item before the assembly. Parliamentary questions are not debatable. Previous votes of the assembly in the current legislative term are not debatable except in terms of a motion for their repeal. Allegations of incapacity, negligence, misconduct or improper motives are not debatable except in terms of a substantive motion allowing a separate and distinct vote on each allegation.

(Bill introduced by Dep. Alan Grieve)

Passed by majority consent on this day.


Michael Fors
Speaker