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76.Procedure in Select Committees

1. Any Member may move a motion for the appointment of a Select Committee to consider a Bill or other matter and the question shall be decided in accordance with the usual practice of the House.

2. The nomination of members to a Select Committee and the number of the quorum shall be decided by the Speaker after consultation with the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition:

3. Provided that the Speaker may, in the case of the death or unavoidable absence of a Member of a committee, appoint another Member of the House in the place of such Member.

4. Unless otherwise ordered, each Select Committee shall consist of nine Members.

5. There shall be a Government majority on every Committee.

6. As soon as possible after the appointment of a Select Committee, the Chairman thereof shall appoint an early day for the first meeting. The subsequent meetings shall be by adjournment from the previous meeting or, if there be no such adjournment, then by appointment to be made by the Chairman.

7. Every Select Committee shall keep its own Minutes, including details of any divisions which may take place and the Minutes shall be included with the report of the Committee to the House and be published with it.

8. The manner of voting in a Committee shall be decided by the Chairman.

9. In the event of an equality of votes, the Chairman of the Select Committee shall exercise a casting vote but otherwise shall not vote.

10. A Committee shall have power to send for any persons, papers or records which it may think relevant to its inquiry and all persons whose individual rights or interests are affected by such matters may be heard, if the Committee thinks fit, either in person or at the discretion of the Committee by counsel. Oral evidence before a Select Committee shall be recorded verbatim.

11. A Committee shall consider its report paragraph by paragraph and any Member who objects to one or more parts of the report may vote thereon. The Minutes showing such disagreement shall be published but no minority report shall be issued.

12. A Committee shall report to the House as soon as it has completed the consideration of the matter referred to it but, with leave of the House, a committee may from time to time make an interim report.

13. The report of a Select Committee shall be brought up by the Chairman, and shall be laid on the Table.

14. A Bill reported from any Select Committee shall stand recommitted to a Committee of the whole House without the Speaker putting the question to the House.

15. The evidence taken before a Select Committee and documents presented to the Committee shall not be published by a Member of the Committee or by any other persons before the Committee have presented their report to the House.

16. Payment at the discretion of the Committee may be made to any professional or other witness or to persons whom the Committee may deem it necessary to employ in furtherance of the inquiry with which the Committee is charged and the Chairman's certificate on the face of an account shall be sufficient authority for its payment by the Secretary-General.

1. A report from a Select Committee shall be laid upon the Table by the Chairman of that committee or, in his absence by another Member of the committee. It shall remain in the custody of the Secretary-General who shall make it available for inspection by Members pursuant to paragraph (4) of Standing Order 16.

2. Upon presentation of a report of a parliamentary select committee pursuant to Standing Order 77(l), a specific motion in connection with the report may be moved without notice by the Member presenting the report or any other Members. The debate on the question shall then be adjourned until a future day.