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History of the Procedure Committee on its 20th anniversary

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On Monday 28 November 2005, the House Standing Committee on Procedure tabled its report entitled History of the Procedure Committee on its 20th anniversary: Procedural reform in the House of Representatives - 1985–2005.

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This report is comprised of preliminary pages, 9 chapters and 5 appendices.

History of the Procedure Committee on its 20th anniversary: Procedural reform in the House of Representatives - 1985–2005

Preliminary pages (PDF 86KB)
Contents, Foreword, Committee Membership, Terms of Reference, List of Abbreviations and List of Recommendations

Chapter 1 (PDF 28KB)
First reading

Chapter 2 (PDF 33KB)
Practices and procedures

Chapter 3 (PDF 65KB)
Development of practices and procedures in the House of Representatives

Chapter 4 (PDF 59KB)
Procedure Committee: Establishment and composition

Chapter 5 (PDF 61KB)
Procedural reform: The objectives of the Procedure Committee

Chapter 6 (PDF 321KB)
Consideration in detail: The work of the Procedure Committee

Chapter 7 (PDF 41KB)
Reflections

Chapter 8 (PDF 107KB)
Summing up

Chapter 9 (PDF 37KB)
Third reading

Appendix A (PDF 80KB)
Establishment and membership

Appendix B (PDF 24KB)
Chairs and members roll

Appendix C (PDF 83KB)
Reports and responses

Appendix D (PDF 19KB)
Annual committee activity

Appendix E (PDF 26KB)
Who’s who

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