AMENDMENTS TO BILLS AND MOTIONS

    1. Subject to the provisions of section 61 of the Constitution any Senator who has risen to speak on a question proposed by the President may, without notice, move an amendment thereto if the amendment is relevant and not identical to any other amendment moved by another Senator. The relevancy of an amendment or the identity of one amendment with another shall be decided by the President.
    2. Except in Committee of the whole Senate every amendment shall require to be seconded.
    3. Amendments 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 President, shall put the amendment into writing and shall hand the text to the President who shall thereupon propose the question on the amendment to the Senate.
      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 President 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 President,

      1. An amendment to an amendment which a Senator 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 on in the same way as an amendment to a motion.
      3. When every amendment to an amendment has been disposed of the President shall again propose the question on the original amendment, or propose the question on the original amendment as amen e , as the case may require.

    1. An amendment may be withdrawn at the request of the mover by leave of the Senate before the question is fully put thereon. An amendment which has been so withdrawn may be proposed again.
    2. If the question has been proposed Oil an amendment to a motion or to another amendment, the original motion or amendment thereto may not be withdrawn until the amendment thereto has been disposed of.
    3. A notice of an amendment may be withdrawn from the Order Paper at any time before it is moved if the Senator in whose name the amendment stands gives instructions to that effect to the Clerk.

  4. Amendments to Bills must comply with section 61 of the Constitution and 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 of the Whole Senate.
    3. An amendment must not be such as to make the clause which it proposed 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 President, 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 (4) of Standing Order No. 46 (Committal of Bills and Committee stage of Bills), all amendment which proposed to omit the whole substance of a clause is irregular. The proper course is to negative the clause.

  5. The President 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.

  6. Notwithstanding anything in any Standing Order, whenever the President is satisfied that for any reason the printing of any Bill, is impracticable by reason of urgency, he may so certify such Bill, and the Bill may be proceeded with in spite of the fact that it has not been printed, provided that cyclo-styled or type-written copies are available for the use of Senators, and may be taken through ah its stages in such form.

    1. A Message from the House of Representatives shall be received in the Clerk's office at any time during a sitting of the Senate.
    2. The Clerk shall immediately cause the Message to be delivered to the President.
    3. As soon as may be, but without interrupting a Senator who is addressing the Chair, the President shall direct the Clerk to read the said Message.
    4. When the Senate is not sitting, a Message from the House of Representatives shall be received by the Clerk who shall cause the Message to be delivered to the President; and the President may direct the Clerk to read the said Message at the next convenient sitting of the Senate.