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    "speaker_name": "Mr. Deputy Speaker",
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    "content": "Hon. Members, if I may proceed and read the part on public petitions in our Standing Orders, Standing Order No.163 states as follows:- \"Every Member offering to present a petition to the House, not being a petition for a Private Bill, shall confine himself to a statement of the parties from whom it comes, the number of signatures attached to it, and material allegations contained in it, and to reading the prayer of such petition.\" Standing Order No.164 states as follows:- \"Every such petition shall be brought to the Table of the House, by the direction of Mr. Speaker who shall not allow debate, or any Member to speak upon, or in relation to such petition; but it may be read by the Clerk if so required.\" You realise that you have not conformed to Standing Order No.164. Petitions are varied. You have taken it beyond the purview, scope or mandate of petitions as intended in the Standing Orders. The petition, the way you put it proceeds on, further in Section 165, and says:- \"Every Member presenting a petition shall take care that the same is in conformity with the usual practice of the House.\" We all realise that this has been a sovereign country for a very long time. This is a bit tough essentially. A Member presenting a petition may, after notice is given, prove that it be printed. Hon. Member, you can bring in a petition on a variety of varied and diverse issues but not a petition to come and direct the business of the House and overrule the House Business Committee in its arrangement of the business of the House or the Speaker for that matter or the House. August 6, 2008 PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 2385 If you also go to Standing Order No.33(1) it says:- \"The Government shall have the right to have Government business placed on the Order Paper in such sequence as the Government may determine.\" So, hon. Member, in the circumstances, your Petition cannot be allowed and the Chair rules it out of order in the form it is."
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