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PART IX-AMENDMENTS TO BILLS AND MOTIONS

57.Amendments

1. Subject to the provisions of Standing Order 26, any Member who has risen to speak on a question proposed by the Speaker may, without notice, move an amendment thereto if the amendment is relevant and not identical to any other amendment moved by another Member. The relevance of an amendment or the identity of one amendment with another shall be decided by the Speaker.

   Except in Committee, every amendment shall require to be seconded.

2. Amendment to any question shall be put before the original question is put and an amendment to a proposed amendment shall be considered as if the previous amendment were an original motion.

1. An amendment to a motion shall take one of the following forms:
   1. To leave out one or more of the words of the motion.

   2. To insert one or more words in the motion.

   3. To add one or more words at the end of the motion.

   4. To leave out one or more words of the motion and insert one or more words instead.

   5. To leave out one or more words at the end of the motion and to add one or more words instead.

2. When an amendment has been moved without notice, the mover, if directed by the Speaker, shall put the amendment in writing, and shall hand the text to the Speaker who shall thereupon propose the questions on the amendment to the House.

3. 1. On an amendment to a motion the question to be proposed shall be "That the amendment be made".

   2. When two or more amendments are proposed to be moved to the same motion, the Speaker shall call on the movers in the order in which their amendments relate to the text of the motion or in cases of doubt, in the order decided by the Speaker.

4. 1. An amendment to an amendment which a Member wishes to propose may be moved at any time after the question on the original amendment has been proposed and before it has been put at the conclusion of the debate on the original amendment.

   2. An amendment to an amendment shall be disposed of the same way as an amendment to a motion.

   3. When every amendment to an amendment has been disposed of the Speaker or Chairman shall again propose the question on the original amendment, or propose the question on the original amendment as amended, as the case may require.

1. Amendments to Bills must comply with the following rules:
   1. an amendment must be relevant to the subject-matter of the Bill and to the subject-matter of the clause to which it relates;

   2. an amendment must not be inconsistent with any previous decision of the Committee;

   3. an amendment must not be such as to make the clause which it proposes to amend unintelligible or ungrammatical;

   4. if an amendment refers to, or is not intelligible without a subsequent amendment or Schedule then, on the direction of the Speaker, written notice of the subsequent amendment or Schedule must be given before, or when the first amendment is moved, so as to make the series of amendments intelligible. Subject to the provisions of paragraph (5) of Standing Order 51, an amendment which proposes to omit the whole substance of a clause is irregular. The proper course is to negative the clause.

1. An amendment may be withdrawn at the request of the mover by leave of the House.

2. Where an amendment has been proposed, to a question, the original motion cannot be withdrawn until the amendment has been first disposed of by being agreed to, withdrawn, or negatived.

3. Where an amendment to an amendment has been proposed, the original amendment cannot be withdrawn until the amendment thereto has been first disposed of by being agreed to, withdrawn, or negatived.

The Speaker may refuse to propose an amendment which in his opinion is unintelligible, irrelevant, frivolous or scandalous or is otherwise out of order or not in accordance with the provisions of Standing Orders.