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Chapter 9 - Motions
and amendments
Duration of
resolutions and orders
A resolution or
order of the Senate is regarded as
continuing in effect unless its terms indicate that it has a limited life, or
it is spent by the effluxion of time or the circumstances to which it applied
no longer exist. Thus the standing orders of the Senate adopted in 1903
continued in effect until they were replaced in 1989. The Privilege Resolutions
of 25
February 1988 continue to apply to privilege matters, as do various procedural
orders of the Senate. On 13 February 1991, after some debate about whether
various resolutions and orders of the Senate should be regarded as having
continuing effect, the Senate, on the recommendation of the Procedure
Committee, adopted a resolution indicating that it would add a form of words to
future resolutions and orders to indicate that they are intended to have
continuing effect. This decision, however, has not been consistently followed.
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