Proposed amendments to the standing orders
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4(h) and 4(i)
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(h) The Prime Minister or another Minister shall inform the House the time when the Governor-General will receive the Members of the House and the Speaker.
(i) Before any business of the House, the Speaker, leading other Members, shall present himself or herself to the Governor-General at the appointed time. The Speaker and Members shall then return to the House. The Speaker shall resume the Chair and report to the House.
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Streamline proceedings for the opening of Parliament, in accordance with current practice
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78(l)
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(l) motion that further proceedings on a bill or order of the day be conducted in the House (standing order 197)
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Consistency with cross-referenced SO 197(a)
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80
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If a Member is speaking, other than when giving a notice of motion or moving the terms of a motion, another Member may move
That the Member be no longer heard.
The question must be put immediately and resolved without amendment or debate.
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Remove redundant reference
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144
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When a standing or select committee has presented a report on a bill, the Member in charge of the bill shall may move a motion without notice to set a time for the consideration in detail of the bill.
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Amend to reflect current practice
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193
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The first item of business on any day that the Federation Chamber meets shall be constituency statements by Members. The Deputy Speaker may call a Member to make a constituency statement for no longer than three minutes. The period for Members’ constituency statements may continue for 30 minutes, or longer if agreed, irrespective of suspensions for divisions in the House.
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Formalise current practice
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209(c)
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The chair of the Petitions Committee shall announce any ministerial responses to petitions. After the announcement, ministerial responses shall be printed in Hansard and published on the House’s website. The Petitions Committee may authorise the publication of a ministerial response prior to presentation to the House, and it must then be presented at the first available opportunity.
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Allow more timely publication of ministerial responses to petitions
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232
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(c) Appointments of Chair and deputy Chair made before a committee’s first meeting are deemed to take effect from the date of the committee’s first meeting. All other appointments of Chair and deputy Chair are deemed to take effect from the date of the appointment letter or the date of that Member’s appointment to the committee, whichever is the later.
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Additional section to reflect current practice
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1, 2, 100, 215, 222 and 222A
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Replace ‘non-aligned Member(s)’ with an alternative term, such as ‘cross-bench Member(s)’.
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