HOUSE OF LORDS - United Kingdom Parliament
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Leave of the House 3.19 The leave of the House is required before certain procedures or items of business can proceed. Similar rules apply in Committees of the whole House. 3.20 In certain cases where leave is sought, it is granted by majority and the objection of a single member of the House is not sufficient to withhold leave. Leave is granted by majority: (a) to ask questions; (b) to make ministerial or personal statements; (c) to take business not on the order paper of which notice is not required; (d) to speak more than once to a motion. 3.21 In other cases leave must be unanimous, notably in those cases where, if leave were granted, the House or committee would be deprived of having a Question put. 1 Leave is withheld if a single member of the House objects to: (a) withdrawal of an amendment or a motion which is before the House; (b) moving motions, amendments and clauses en bloc (see paragraph 3.51); (c) moving a motion that the order of commitment or recommitment of a bill be discharged; (d) moving a motion or asking a question when the mover or questioner is absent, unless the authority of the member named on the order paper has been given; (e) postponing business without notice till later the same day. 2 3.22 Leave is usually obtained without putting the Question; but if necessary, the Question “that leave be given” could be divided upon in a case where leave may be granted by a majority decision. However, this would be exceptional, as a member who requests leave usually tests the feeling of the House and, if there is opposition to leave being granted, the request is generally withdrawn. 1 SO 31. 2 SO 42(3). 42
Suspension of standing orders 3.23 SO 86 provides that no motion shall be agreed to for making a new standing order, or for dispensing with a standing order, unless notice has been given on the order paper. Consequently, when it is desired that a standing order should be suspended for a specific period, or dispensed with for a particular purpose, notice of a motion, customarily in the name of the Leader of the House, is inserted on the order paper under the heading “Business of the House”. Such motions are taken before other notices relating to public business. SOs 40 (arrangement of the order paper) and 46 (no two stages of a bill to be taken on one day) are sometimes suspended when pressure of business increases before a recess or prorogation, to enable the government to arrange the order of business and to take more than one stage of a bill at a sitting. 3.24 SO 86 provides that on occasions of grave national emergency a bill may be passed through all its stages on one day without notice. In such cases SOs 46 and 86 are read at the Table by the Clerk and a resolution is moved that it is essential for reasons of national security that a bill or bills should immediately be proceeded with and that the provisions of SO 46 should be dispensed with to enable the House to proceed that day with every stage of the bill or bills which it thinks necessary. 1 House documents 3.25 There are three core documents giving information about the business that the House has done and the business it expects to do: House of Lords Business, a single document containing future business and the Minutes of Proceedings, the daily record of business transacted; the white order paper (the agenda for the day); Hansard (the official report of what is said in debate). 3.26 On sitting days, copies of the order paper are available from the Printed Paper Office, from the desks in the Peers’ Entrance, and from the desks adjacent to the Chamber in the Prince’s Chamber and Peers’ Lobby. 1 LJ (1971–72) 159. 43
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Suspension of standing orders<br />
3.23 SO 86 provides that no motion shall be agreed to for making a<br />
new standing order, or for dispensing with a standing order, unless notice<br />
has been given on the order paper. Consequently, when it is desired that<br />
a standing order should be suspended for a specific period, or dispensed<br />
with for a particular purpose, notice of a motion, customarily in the name<br />
of the Leader of the House, is inserted on the order paper under the<br />
heading “Business of the House”. Such motions are taken before other<br />
notices relating to public business. SOs 40 (arrangement of the order<br />
paper) and 46 (no two stages of a bill to be taken on one day) are<br />
sometimes suspended when pressure of business increases before a<br />
recess or prorogation, to enable the government to arrange the order of<br />
business and to take more than one stage of a bill at a sitting.<br />
3.24 SO 86 provides that on occasions of grave national emergency a<br />
bill may be passed through all its stages on one day without notice. In<br />
such cases SOs 46 and 86 are read at the Table by the Clerk and a<br />
resolution is moved that it is essential for reasons of national security that<br />
a bill or bills should immediately be proceeded with and that the<br />
provisions of SO 46 should be dispensed with to enable the House to<br />
proceed that day with every stage of the bill or bills which it thinks<br />
necessary. 1<br />
House documents<br />
3.25 There are three core documents giving information about the<br />
business that the House has done and the business it expects to do:<br />
House of Lords Business, a single document containing future<br />
business and the Minutes of Proceedings, the daily record of<br />
business transacted;<br />
the white order paper (the agenda for the day);<br />
Hansard (the official report of what is said in debate).<br />
3.26 On sitting days, copies of the order paper are available from the<br />
Printed Paper Office, from the desks in the Peers’ Entrance, and from the<br />
desks adjacent to the Chamber in the Prince’s Chamber and Peers’<br />
Lobby.<br />
1 LJ (1971–72) 159.<br />
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