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    "speaker_name": "Hon. Ethuro",
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        "legal_name": "Ekwee David Ethuro",
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    "content": " About 40 minutes each, and then it can be revised if that mathematics is not correct. So, I will want to give the procedure on how to proceed on Order No.9. Hon. Senators, I would like to guide the House on the procedure which shall apply to the consideration of the report of the Rules and Business Committee on the Review of the Standing Orders. This guidance is important because the Standing Orders now provide for an entirely new procedure. You will realize that in the past, reports on the review of the Standing Orders were usually considered in three phases; in the first phase, when the Order for Motion was read, the Chairperson of the Committee moved the Motion that Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair, which was subsequently seconded and the question proposed to initiate debate on the policy and principles implied in the report. At the end, the question was put, “THAT, Mr. Speaker do now leave the Chair.” If this was agreed to, the House would dissolve itself into a Committee of the Whole. In the second phase, the report was considered in the Committee of the Whole in a similar manner as the Committee Stage of a Bill, except that the Speaker took the Chair as the Chairperson of the Committee of the Whole, since he was also the Chairperson of the RBC. The Clerk would then read each of the proposed amendments to the Standing Orders, one after the other, and each amendment was disposed off in that order like in the case of a Bill. After all the proposed amendments had been disposed of, the Question for the Motion of the Adoption of the Report was then put. In the third phase, the House resumed and the Speaker reported progress of the Report. The Question was then put “That the House doth agree with the Committee on the said report.” Hon. Senators, the new procedure which shall apply to Order No.9 is provided for under Standing Order No.247, which provides that: “Upon the tabling of a report of the Rules and Business Committee under Standing Orders 244, 245 and 246, the procedure set out at standing order 245(5) and (6) shall apply with the necessary modifications.” Standing Order No. 245(5) provides that: The electronic version of the Senate Hansard Report is for information purposes only. A certified version of this Report can be obtained from the Hansard Editor, Senate."
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