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    "content": "Standing Orders, or to re-write them. In particular, Standing Order No.1 comes into play where matters are not expressly provided for by the Standing Orders. Before ruling on the request to rescind the decision of Sen.(Dr.) Kuti’s amendment Motion, I wish to draw the attention of the Senate to Standing Order Nos.47 and 51. Standing Order No.51(1) provides that:- “When a Motion has been moved and if necessary seconded, the Speaker shall propose the question thereon in the same terms as the Motion, and debate may then take place upon that question. (2) At the conclusion of the debate, the Speaker shall put the question. (3) Despite paragraph (2), the Speaker may, on the request of a Senator, defer the putting of the question to the following day in which case the Speaker shall thereupon nominate a time at which the question shall be put.” That is definitely what was done to the substantive Motion at the request of Sen.(Dr.) Khalwale. Indeed, Sen.(Dr.) Khalwale made this request for deferral of his Motion yesterday. The conduct and disposal of business of the Senate is the collective responsibility of not just the Speaker, but also of all the hon. Senators. The Mover of a Motion must be presumed to be the best judge of his or her own interests. Therefore, where he or she feels to invoke an available mechanism for deferral of putting the question, he or she must be presumed to know and to intend the consequences of the ensuing decision of the Senate. Hon. Senators, Standing Order No.47 too permits a Motion to be moved to rescind the decision of the Senate on the question on another Motion. Such a Motion can be moved with the permission of the Speaker. There are remedies for a Senator who wishes to have the Senate rescind his decision on the question of a Motion. That is provided for in Standing Order No.47(2). I, therefore, rule that where an express remedy is available in the Standing Orders, the Speaker will not invoke the extraordinary powers conferred by Standing Order No.1"
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