Thursday, 23 February 2023

Rulings from the Chair

Notices of motion

The PRESIDENT (17:18): Some outstanding business from today: now having had the opportunity to look at Mr Davis’s notice of motion from this morning, I will rule the notice out. The way the notice of motion is currently drafted I do not believe it is in order, because the action it seeks is clearly not within the competency of the house to achieve. Furthermore, requiring the Clerk to transmit a message to the Assembly is not in accordance with joint standing order 2, which stipulates how messages between houses are to be transmitted. Mr Davis has the opportunity to give a new notice of motion next sitting week. I remind members that while it is not compulsory it has been a common practice to provide the clerks with copies of notices of motion before they are given to the house.