Standing orders.pdf - Hutt City Council
Standing orders.pdf - Hutt City Council
Standing orders.pdf - Hutt City Council
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HCC <strong>Standing</strong> Orders 3 August 2004 Issue No. 2 59<br />
2.C20 PRIORITY OF SPEAKERS<br />
The Chairperson will determine the order in which members may speak when two or more<br />
members seek the right to speak.<br />
(See standing order 21.5)<br />
2.C21 MINUTES<br />
The Chairperson is to sign the minutes and proceedings of every meeting once confirmed.<br />
The Chairperson and Chief Executive are responsible for confirming the correctness of the<br />
minutes of the last meeting of a local authority prior to the next election of members.<br />
(See standing <strong>orders</strong> 35.3 and 36.2)<br />
2.C22 QUESTIONS OF SPEAKERS<br />
The Chairperson may permit members to ask questions of speakers under public comment for the purpose<br />
of obtaining information or clarification on matters raised by the speaker.<br />
(See standing order 38.3)<br />
2.C23 WITHDRAWAL OF OFFENSIVE OR MALICIOUS EXPRESSIONS<br />
(a)<br />
The Chairperson may call upon any member or speaker to withdraw any offensive or<br />
malicious expression and may require the member to apologise for the expression.<br />
(b)<br />
Any member who refuses to withdraw the expression or apologise, if required by the<br />
Chairperson, can be directed to withdraw from the meeting for a time specified by the<br />
Chairperson.<br />
(See standing order 21.10 to 21.13)<br />
2.C24 CHAIRPERSON'S RULINGS<br />
Any member who refuses to accept a ruling of the Chairperson may be required by the Chairperson<br />
to withdraw from the meeting for a specified time.<br />
(See standing order 21.9)<br />
2.C25 DISORDERLY BEHAVIOUR<br />
The Chairperson may:<br />
(a) Require any member or member of the public whose conduct is disorderly or who is<br />
creating a disturbance to withdraw immediately from the meeting for a time specified by the<br />
Chairperson.<br />
(See standing order 21.13 and 34.1)<br />
(b)<br />
Ask the meeting to hold in contempt any member whose conduct is grossly disorderly and<br />
where the meeting resolves to find the member in contempt, that resolution shall be<br />
recorded in the minutes.<br />
(See standing order 21.15)<br />
2.C26 FAILURE TO LEAVE MEETING<br />
If a member or member of the public who is required in accordance with a Chairperson's<br />
requirement to leave the meeting refuses or fails to do so, or having left the meeting attempts to reenter<br />
without the permission of the Chairperson, any Police Officer or employee of<br />
the <strong>Council</strong> may, at the Chairperson's request, remove or exclude the member from the meeting.<br />
(See standing <strong>orders</strong> 21.16 and 34.2)