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62.Committee of Supply

1. There shall be a Committee of the whole House to be called the Committee of Supply.

2. The deliberations of the Committee shall be in public.

1. The annual Appropriation Bill shall be presented on any convenient day in November or December of each year.

2. The Bill shall be presented by the Minister responsible for Finance and shall provide for the issue from the Consolidated Fund of the sums necessary to meet the expenditure required for the services of the Government of Fiji for the succeeding financial year and the appropriation of those sums for the purposes specified in the Bill.

3. Details of -the financial requirements of the Government of Fiji, hereinafter referred to as the "Estimates" shall be circulated to all Members immediately after presentation in the House.

4. The House shall be adjourned after the Bill and any fiscal measures specified in the next following Standing Order have been moved and seconded until a date and time to be fixed by the Speaker of which at least two clear days' notice shall be given and which shall be at least six clear days from the date of such adjournment.

5. After the Appropriation Bill has been read a second time the Bill and the Estimates shall then stand committed to the Committee of Supply without the question being put.

Any Bill which is a fiscal measure and any fiscal measure connected with a Bill may be moved and seconded after the Bill has been moved and seconded, without publication or notice and without suspension of these Standing Orders, and shall be debated and proceed through their remaining stages after the Appropriation Bill has been read a third time.

65.Procedure on Estimates in Committee of Supply

1. The Chairman of the Committee of Supply shall order the Secretary to call each head of the Estimates in turn, whereupon debate may take place on any matter related thereto.

2. Subject to the provisions of Standing Order 26, an amendment to any head, subhead or item may be moved without notice during the course of the debate.

3. If more than one amendment is moved to the same head, subhead or item, an amendment for an increase of any sum shall have precedence over an amendment for its reduction, and an amendment for a greater reduction shall have precedence over an amendment for a lesser reduction.

4. Only the following three forms of amendment shall be in order in the Committee of Supply on the Estimates:
   1. "That head be increased by $ (in respect of subhead )(item.........)",

   2. "That head be decreased by $ (in respect of subhead )(item.........)",

   3. "That subhead (item ) be left out of head......"

5. 1. When no more Members wish to speak on any head, subhead or item the Chairman shall put the question upon any amendment which may have been proposed thereto.

   2. At the conclusion of all proceedings in relation to a head the Chairman shall put the question and if an amendment has been made to any part of the head, "That the amount of head., as amended, be approved".

   3. After the question on any such amendment has been decided, or if no such amendment is moved, the Secretary-General shall call the next head.

6. Debate on every matter considered on every amendment shall be confined to the head, subhead or item to which the matter or amendment refers.

1. At the conclusion of the proceedings under the last preceding Standing Order the Committee of Supply shall proceed forthwith with the consideration of the Appropriation Bill, the questions upon the schedules being put before the questions on the clauses.

2. No amendment shall be moved to any schedule or clause unless consequential on an amendment made to the amount of any head during the consideration of the Estimates. Any such consequential amendment shall be moved by the Minister responsible for Finance. When the question on the last of any such amendments to a schedule or clause has been decided, the Chairman shall forthwith put the question, "That the schedule (or clause), as amended, stand part of the Bill". Where no amendment is offered to a schedule or clause the Chairman shall forthwith put the question, "That the schedule (or clause) stand part of the Bill". Every question put under this paragraph shall be decided without amendment or debate.

3. When the question on every schedule or clause of the Bill has been decided, the Bill or the Bill as amended, shall be reported to the House and a motion for the third reading shall then be proposed, shall not require to be seconded and shall be decided forthwith without amendment or debate.

1. When it is necessary in respect of any financial year to provide for expenditure upon any service not already provided. for by the Appropriation Bill or any supplementary Appropriation Bill relating to that year or which is in excess of the provision made in respect of that service by that Appropriation Bill or any supplementary Appropriation Bill, proposals for such expenditure shall be laid before the House in the form of a Supplementary Estimate setting out the sums required under the appropriate heads, subheads and items.

2. A Supplementary Estimate shall stand committed to the Committee of Supply which shall consider it in accordance with the procedure laid down by Standing Order 65.

3. On conclusion of proceedings in the Committee of Supply the Minister of Finance shall report the Supplementary Estimates to the House and move a motion to approve the Estimates.

4. Any sums approved in accordance with the preceding paragraph shall be included in a supplementary Appropriation Bill to be submitted to the House.

The Minister responsible for Finance shall lay on the Table during the course of every session of the House a report showing directions, writeoffs, abandonments and approvals made under the provisions of any law for the time being in force, except for virement approved under the provisions of section 6(4) of the Finance Act.