question, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith declare the bill to be read a second or the third time as he case may be. on reading committee 32. When a bill or other matter (except Procedure upply or ways and means) has been partly con- order for idered in committee, and the chairman has been lirected to report progress, and ask leave to sit gain, and the house shall have ordered that be committee shall sit again on a particular lay, the speaker shall, when the order for be committee has been read, forthwith leave he chair without putting any question, and he house shall thereupon resolve itself into uch committee. of bills committee, 33. Bills which may be fixed for considera- Reference on in committee on the same day, whether in together to rogress or otherwise, may be referred together o a committee of the whole house, which may onsider on the same day all the bills so eferred to it, without the chairman leaving the hair on each separate bill; provided that, with espect to any bill not in progress, if any ember shall object to its consideration in comittee, together with other bills, the order of e day for the committee on such bill shall postponed. ments in 4. It shall be an instruction to all com- Amendittees of the whole house to which bills may be committee. Tommitted, that they have power to make such mendments therein as they shall think fit, proided they be relevant to the subject matter of the B Postponement of preamble. Discontinuance of first and second reading stages in committee. Questions not to be put on blanks. Procedure on offer of new clause. Report of bill. the bill; but that if any such amendments shad not be within the title of the bill, they do amend the title accordingly, and do report the same specially to the house. 35. In committee on a bill, the preamble shall stand postponed until after the consideratio of the clauses, without question put. 36. The questions for reading a bill a firs and second time in a committee of the whole house shall be discontinued. 37. In going through a bill no questions shall be put for the filling up words already printed in italics, and commonly called blanks unless exception be taken thereto; and if no alterations have been made in the words printed in italics, the bill shall be reported without amendments, unless other amendments have been made thereto. 38. On a clause being offered in the com mittee on the bill, or on the consideration o report of a bill, Mr. Speaker or the chairma shall desire the member to bring up the same whereupon it shall be read a first time withou question put, but no clause shall be offered a consideration of report without notice. 39. At the close of the proceedings of committee of the whole house on a bill, th chairman shall report the bill forthwith to th house, and when amendments shall have bee made thereto, the same shall be received, with out debate, and a time appointed for taking th same into consideration. 40. Whe of bill as 40. When the order of the day for the con- Consideration ideration of a bill, as amended in the committee amended. of the whole house, has been read, the house shall roceed to consider the same without question ut, unless the member in charge thereof shall esire to postpone its consideration, or a motion hall be made to re-commit the bill. of a bill. 40A. If a motion to re-commit a bill be Re-committal pposed, Mr. Speaker shall permit a brief exEanatory statement of the reasons for such e-committal from the member who moves and om a member who opposes any such motion espectively, and shall without further debate ut the question thereon. ments on 41. Upon the report stage of any bill no Amendmendment may be proposed which could not report. ave been proposed in committee without an struction from the house. on third 42. No amendments, not being merely verbal, Amendment hall be made to any bill on the third reading. reading. 43. Lords' amendments to public bills Lords' hall be appointed to be considered on a future ay, unless the house shall order them to be Considered forthwith. amendments. 44. With respect to any bill brought to Pecuniary his house from the House of Lords, or returned the House of Lords to this house, with mendments, whereby any pecuniary penalty, orfeiture, or fee shall be authorized, imposed, Cppropriated, regulated, varied, or ex nguished, this house will not insist on its ancient penalties Temporary laws. Committal of bills. ancient and undoubted privileges in the following cases: 1. When the object of such pecuniary penalty or forfeiture is to secure the execution of the act, or the punishment t prevention of offences. 2. Where such fees are imposed in respect of benefit taken or service rendered under the act, and in order to the execution of the act, and are not made payable inte the treasury or exchequer, or in aid of the public revenue, and do not form the ground of public accounting by the parties receiving the same, either in respect of deficit surplus. 3. When such bill shall be a private bil for a local or personal act. 45. The precise duration of every temporary law shall be expressed in a distinct clause al the end of the bill. Standing Committees. 46.--(1.) When a bill has been read a secon time it shall stand committed to one of th standing committees, unless the house. o motion to be decided without amendment a debate, otherwise order: and such a motion stal not require notice, must be made immediatel after the bill is read a second time, may made by any member, and may, though opposed be decided after the expiration of the tim for opposed business. But this order shall apply to b (a) Bil (a) Bills for imposing taxes or Consolidated Fund or Appropriation Bills; or (b) Bills for confirming Provisional Orders. (2.) Provided that the house may, on motion nade by the member in charge of a bill, commit he bill to a standing committee in respect of ome of its provisions, and to a committee of he whole house in respect of other provisions, nd that if such a motion is opposed the peaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a rief explanatory statement from the member ho makes and from the member who opposes he motion, shall without further debate put the uestion thereon. (3.) Where a bill has been committed to a tanding committee, or has been so committed respect of any provision, then, at the report tage of the bill or provision, the rule against peaking more than once shall not apply to the ember in charge of the bill or to the mover any amendment or new clause in respect of hat amendment or clause. of standing 47-(1.) Six standing committees shall be Constitution ppointed for the consideration of bills or other committees. usiness referred to a standing committee, and he procedure in those committees shall be the ame as in a select committee unless the house therwise order. Standing committees may sit uring the sitting, and notwithstanding any djournment of the house. On a division being alled in the house, the chairman of a standing committee |