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Chapter 14 - Committee
of the whole proceedings
Appointment of
committee
Except in relation to bills, for which the Senate automatically
resolves itself into committee at the appropriate stage, a committee of the
whole must be appointed by motion to consider a matter (SO 143(1)). Normally
this is done by a motion, moved when a document is laid before the Senate, that
the document be considered in committee of the whole on a future day. The
standing orders allow such a motion to be moved whenever a document is laid
before the Senate (SO 169). This may be
done, for example, with reports of the Procedure
Committee recommending changes to Senate procedures. If such a motion is passed,
the consideration of the document in committee of the whole becomes an order of
the day for a future day, and when the order of the day is called on the Senate
automatically goes into committee of the whole to consider the document
(SO 143(2)). It is also
open to a senator to move by motion on notice that a matter be considered in
committee of the whole at a specified time.
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