Entry Instance

HTTP 200 OK
Allow: GET, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, HEAD, OPTIONS
Content-Type: application/json
Vary: Accept

{
    "id": 617042,
    "url": "https://info.mzalendo.com/api/v0.1/hansard/entries/617042/?format=api",
    "text_counter": 81,
    "type": "other",
    "speaker_name": "",
    "speaker_title": "",
    "speaker": null,
    "content": "Asset Disposal Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 40 of 2014). While in the Committee of the Whole, the Senate Majority Leader moved a Motion, pursuant to Standing Order No.139, to report progress and seek leave to sit again to consider the President’s Memoranda on the the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Bill (National Assembly Bill No.40 of 2014). The Motion was carried. However, when the House resumed, several Senators raised points of order on the manner in which progress was reported. This led to the Chairperson of the Committee of the Whole declining to report to the Senate the Committee’s consideration of the President’s Memoranda on the the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Bill (National Assembly Bill No. 40 of 2014). In the absence of the report by the Chairperson of the Committee of the Whole, the Speaker deferred the matter and undertook to give further directions which I am giving now. Hon. Senators, I have read the HANSARD and followed what transpired in the House and in the Committee of the Whole keenly on the consideration of the President’s Memorandum on the Public Procurement and Asset Disposal Bill (National Assembly Bill No.40 of 2014). I wish to point out the provisions of the following Standing Orders. Standing Order No. 171 reads:- “A Committee of the Whole shall not consider any matter other than a matter which has been referred to it or which it is required by these Standing Orders to consider.” Standing Order No.172 reads:- “A Committee of the Whole may not adjourn its own sitting or the consideration of any matter to a future sitting, but the Chairperson may, by Motion, be directed notwithstanding that all matters referred to the Committee have not yet been considered, to report progress to the Senate and ask leave to sit again.” Standing Order No.173 reads:- “When all the matters referred to a Committee of the Whole have been considered, the Chairperson shall be directed by Motion to report to the Senate.” Standing Order No.174 (1) reads:- “When a Motion is made in Committee of the Whole to report or to report progress and ask leave to sit again, the Question shall be put forthwith and decided without amendment or debate and if the Question is agreed to, the Chairperson shall forthwith leave the Chair.” Standing Order No. 174 (2) reads:- “Except as otherwise provided by these Standing Orders, every report under paragraph (1) shall be made without Question put, and may, by Motion, be agreed to or negatived by the Senate or re-committed to the Committee of the Whole, or postponed for further consideration.” Hon. Senators, the Committee of the Whole had pronounced itself having agreed to report progress and to seek leave to sit again. The Chairperson of the Committee of the Whole was under obligation to report the same pursuant to Standing Order No.173 as the matter seized being the prerogative of the Chairperson. The specific Standing Orders that I have cited do not give room to the Chairperson to decide as to whether he should report or not. However, in the event that a Chairperson of the Committee of the Whole refuses 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."
}