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    "content": "special majority, the Speaker including any other Member in the Chair shall have a casting vote.” The Constitution and the Standing Orders are, therefore, clear on this matter. As the situation could recur, it is useful to mention that the procedure is that if an elected Member who is in the Chair desires to vote during a division, he is entitled to do so while the division is in progress by having another Member temporarily relieve him or her in the Chair. After the division is complete and the Chair has announced the results of the division, and the results are a tie, it is the prerogative of the Chair to determine if he or she wishes to exercise the casting vote and if so, whether it will be an Aye or a Nay and therefore whether the Motion is carried or lost. To complete the picture, in the event that there is a tie and the Chair chooses not to exercise the casting vote, the Motion is lost. Hon. Members, I, therefore, conclude by ruling as I have that the Motion for the adoption of the Report of the Departmental Committee on Justice and Legal Affairs having been rejected and the requirements relating to approval or rejection of nominees not having been met, it is important that the Government moves expeditiously to move a Motion for the approval of the nominees for Chairperson and members of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission so as to enable the House to make its decision such as the Executive may be appropriately advised expressly by the Speaker in compliance with Section 6 of the Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission Act, 2011. I thank you, hon. Members."
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