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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 5 Hansard (27 August) . . Page.. 1512 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

However, under standing order 16 the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure has responsibility for ordering private members and Assembly business and, for uniformity, this should be reflected in standing order 105. Recommendation No. 2 makes that amendment.

Standing order 149 relates to the precedence given to orders of the day and is also subject to standing order 78 and not standing order 16. Recommendation No. 2 also effects a change to that standing order. Recommendation No. 1 relates to the precedence given to a private member's order of the day which commences the day as a notice and has been duly given precedence by a decision of the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure. When the motion moves from the category of "Notices" and into the category of "Orders of the Day", the precedence given by the decision of the committee is lost. To adjourn debate until "a later hour this day" clearly signals the Assembly's intentions in relation to the matter, but the mechanism provided in standing orders to achieve this as a certainty would require a meeting of the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure. As such a meeting would merely ratify something that is usually clearly the Assembly's intention, recommendation No. 1 suggests an alternative mechanism to achieve this - a standing resolution of the Assembly.

I will move the appropriate motion if the Assembly adopts the report. I commend the report to the Assembly.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

ORDER OF PRIVATE MEMBERS BUSINESS

MS TUCKER (5.54): I ask for leave to move a motion to put into force recommendation No. 1 of the report by the Standing Committee on Administration and Procedure entitled "Order of Private Members and Assembly Business".

Leave granted.

MS TUCKER: I move:

That the order of the day relating to a notice of motion under private Members' business having been moved and debate either:

(1) adjourned pending the Assembly's suspension for lunch; or

(2) interrupted pursuant to standing order 74 and the Speaker setting a later hour of the day for consideration of the matter;

such item of business has precedence over all other private Members' business, in accordance with standing orders 74 and 77, if debate has been adjourned by the Assembly until a later hour that day.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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