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    "content": "ELECTION OF SENATORS TO PRESIDE OVER SITTINGS PURSUANT TO STANDING ORDER NO.18 AND ARTICLE 107(1) OF THE CONSTITUTION I also have a small procedure to dispense with. As you are aware, the Standing Order No.18 provides for presiding in the Senate. It states:- “The Speaker shall preside at any sitting of the Senate but in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker shall preside and in the absence of the Deputy Speaker, pursuant to Article 107(1) (c) of the Constitution, another Senator elected by for that purpose shall preside.” Pursuant to Standing Order No.16, provision is now made for the panel of three Senators, known as the Chairpersons Panel. In the last Session, there were two Members of the Panel only. This Motion is for the approval of the Members who have been serving, upon their election, for purposes of Standing Order No.18, and as provided by the Constitution. They have been presiding in the absence of the Speaker and the Deputy Speaker. When, as in the present case the Deputy Speaker and Members of the Panel are away on official business, and the Speaker requires to be relieved from the Chair, the House has been electing a Senator to preside for the particular sitting or for a number of sitting days. The Deputy Speaker is away on ACPU and the two Temporary Speakers who are Members of the Panel will be away on the Commission of the Women and the Pan African Parliament. So, the Speaker is left alone on the Chair. I hope you will sympathize with me. The procedure is for a Senator to move a Motion without Notice that some other named Senators be elected to preside in the Senate in the absence of the Speaker, the Deputy Speaker and Members of the Chairperson’s Panel for a particular sitting, or for a defined period of time. The Motion will be seconded and the Question proposed in the usual manner and then the Question put. It is unusual and has never happened to us to have debate or for the Motion to be opposed. I have, therefore, requested the Senate Majority Whip to move that Motion."
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