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The House shall meet on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays at half-past two o'clock, and will first proceed with private business, motions for unopposed returns, questions and ballots for notices of motions. [unchanged]
At ten o'clock on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, the proceedings on any business then under consideration shall, save as otherwise provided in paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business), be interrupted; and, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair, and report progress and ask leave to sit again ; and if a motion has been made for the adjournment of the House (unless that motion is included in a motion to be made after the interruption of business under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business)), or of the debate, or in committee that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, every such motion shall lapse. [unchanged]
On the interruption of business the closure may be claimed ; and if moved, or if proceedings under Standing Order No. 31 (Closure of debate) be then in progress, Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall not leave the chair until the questions consequent thereon and any further question, as provided in Standing Order No. 31 (Closure of debate), have been decided. [unchanged]
After the business under consideration at ten o'clock has been disposed of, no opposed business shall be taken, save as provided in Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business). [unchanged]
The House shall not be adjourned except in pursuance of a resolution or by Mr. Speaker in pursuance of paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 2 (Sittings of the House (suspended sittings)) or Standing Order No. 27 (Power of Mr. Speaker to adjourn House or suspend sitting) : Provided that, when a substantive motion for the adjournment of the House has been made at or after ten o'clock, Mr. Speaker shall, after the expiration of half an hour after that motion has been made, adjourn the House without putting any question. [unchanged]
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, a motion may be made after ten o'clock by a Minister of the Crown, 'That the proceedings of this day's sitting be suspended', and the question thereon shall be put forthwith ; and if the question be agreed to in the House, a motion may immediately thereafter be made, 'That this House do now adjourn', and at the conclusion of the debate on that motion and in no case later than half an hour after the motion has been made, the motion shall lapse, and Mr. Speaker shall suspend the sitting till ten o'clock on the following morning, or, if it be after midnight, till ten o'clock in the morning of the same day. [unchanged]
If the question on a motion, made likewise in a committee of the whole House, 'That the proceedings of the committee be suspended', be so decided in the affirmative, the chairman shall leave the chair and make a report to that effect, whereupon Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put the question, 'That the proceedings of this day's sitting be suspended', and the House shall proceed thereon in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this order, and, if the question be agreed to, a motion for the adjournment of the House may be made and the sitting shall afterwards be suspended as aforesaid ; but, if that question be negatived, the House shall immediately again resolve itself into the committee. [unchanged]
On the resumption of the sitting the House shall forthwith resume the suspended proceedings and may afterwards proceed with the remaining business of the sitting which has been suspended : Provided that- [unchanged]
(a) on a motion being made by a Minister of the Crown, 'That this House do now adjourn', Mr. Speaker shall put the question thereon forthwith; or [unchanged]
(b) on the conclusion of the business Mr. Speaker shall adjourn the House without putting any question ; or [unchanged]
(c) if the business has not been concluded before two o'clock, Mr. Speaker shall interrupt the proceedings at that hour and the debate or further consideration of the bill shall stand adjourned, or, if the House be in committee, the chairman shall leave the chair and report progress and ask leave to sit again, and Mr. Speaker shall thereafter adjourn the House without putting any question. [unchanged]
The following business may be proceeded with at any hour though opposed, shall not, save for the purpose of moving a motion pursuant to paragraph (2) of this order, be interrupted at ten o'clock, and if under discussion when the business is postponed under the provisions of any standing order may be resumed, though opposed, after the interruption of business- [unchanged]
(a) proceedings on a bill brought in upon a ways and means resolution or any Consolidated Fund Bill or Appropriation Bill ; [unchanged]
(b) proceedings in pursuance of any Act of Parliament save in so far as Standing Order No. 4 (Prayers against statutory instruments, &c. (negative procedure)) otherwise provides, and proceedings on European Community documents, but Mr. Speaker shall put any questions necessary to dispose of such proceedings not later than half-past eleven o'clock or one and a half hours after the commencement of those proceedings, whichever is the later : Provided that, if Mr. Speaker shall be of opinion that, because of the importance of the subject matter of the motion, the time for debate has not been adequate, he shall, instead of putting the question as aforesaid, interrupt the business, and the debate shall stand adjourned till the next sitting (other than a Friday); [unchanged]
(c) proceedings in pursuance of any standing order of this House which provides that proceedings though opposed may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business ; [unchanged]
(d) proceedings on a motion authorising expenditure in connection with a bill : Provided that any questions necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion shall be put at a quarter to eleven o'clock or three quarters of an hour after the commencement of those proceedings, whichever is the later. [unchanged]
In this paragraph, and in Standing Orders No. 63 (Constitution of standing committees), No. 65 (Nomination of standing committees) and No. 80 (Standing Committees on European Community documents), "European Community documents" means draft proposals by the Commission of the European Communities for legislation and other documents published for submission to the Council of Ministers or to the European Council whether or not such documents originate from the Commission. [unchanged]
(a) until any hour ; [unchanged]
(b) until a specified hour ; or [unchanged]
(c) until either a specified hour or the end of a specified period after it has been entered upon, whichever is the later, [unchanged]
or in a form combining any or all of these effects in respect of different items of business, the motion shall stand over and may not be made until after the interruption of business and shall then be proceeded with, though opposed, in accordance with the following paragraphs of this order provided that on any day on which Mr. Speaker is directed to put questions at ten o'clock pursuant to paragraph (7) of Standing Order No. 19 (Consideration of estimates), any such motion shall stand over until those questions have been decided. [unchanged]
If the business interrupted is included in the business specified in the motion or in paragraph (1) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall, immediately after the interruption of business, or, if the House has been in committee, before any day is named for the House again to resolve itself into that committee, call upon the Minister to move his motion and the question thereon shall be put forthwith, and after that question has been decided the consideration of the business interrupted shall be resumed if such business is included in the business specified in paragraph (1) of this order or if the question be resolved in the affirmative. [unchanged]
If the business interrupted is not included in the business specified in the motion or in paragraph (1) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall call upon the Minister to move his motion at the conclusion of any proceedings arising on the interruption of business under the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) but before the resumption of any proceedings postponed under Standing Orders No. 7 (Time for taking private business) or No. 10 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration). [unchanged]
(a) business which may be proceeded with until a specified hour may not if opposed be entered upon or resumed after that hour and the proceedings thereon if not previously concluded shall be interrupted at that hour; [unchanged]
(b) when proceedings on such business have been postponed under the provisions of Standing Order No. 10 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration), such business may be proceeded with after the specified hour for a further period of time equal to the duration of the proceedings upon the motion under the said Standing Order No. 10 ; and [unchanged]
Not more than one motion under paragraph (2) of this order may be made at any one sitting and after any business proceeding under the provisions of this order is disposed of after ten o'clock, the remaining business of the sitting shall be dealt with according to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) applicable to business taken after ten o'clock. [unchanged]
No proceedings on a motion to which this order applies shall be entered upon at or after half-past eleven o'clock. [unchanged]
If such a motion is under consideration at half-past eleven o'clock, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put any question which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair, provided that, if he shall be of opinion that- [unchanged]
A debate which has been adjourned under paragraph (2) of this order shall not be resumed later than eleven o'clock, but shall stand further adjourned till the next sitting (other than a Friday), and the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall apply to any debate which has been further adjourned under this paragraph as if the further adjournment were an adjournment under paragraph (2) of the order. [unchanged]
The motions to which this order applies are- [unchanged]
(b) any motion that, or for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that, any other document which may be subject to proceedings in the House in pursuance of a statute be annulled, or cease to be in force, or be not made. [unchanged]
The House shall meet on Fridays at half-past nine o'clock, and will first proceed with private business, petitions, and motions for unopposed returns. [unchanged]
Standing Orders No. 1 (Sittings of the House) and No. 3 (Exempted business) shall apply to the sittings on Fridays with the omission of paragraph (1) of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) and with the substitution of references to half-past two o'clock, a quarter past three o'clock and four o'clock for references to ten o'clock, a quarter to eleven o'clock and half-past eleven o'clock respectively. [unchanged]
In the application of Standing Order No. 4 (Prayers against statutory instruments, &c. (negative procedure)) to the sittings on Fridays there shall be substituted references to four o'clock for references to half-past eleven o'clock. [unchanged]
At eleven o'clock Mr. Speaker may interrupt the proceedings in order to permit questions to be asked which are in his opinion of an urgent character and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business, statements to be made by Ministers, or personal explanations to be made by Members. [unchanged]
If the House is in Committee at eleven o'clock, on an occasion when Mr. Speaker's intention to permit such questions, statements or explanations has been made known, the Chairman shall leave the Chair without putting any question, and report that the Committee have made progress and ask leave to sit again. [unchanged]
Nineteen allotted days in each session shall be at the disposal of the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition and matters selected on these days shall have precedence over government business provided that- [unchanged]
(a) two Friday sittings shall be deemed equivalent to a single sitting on any other day, and [unchanged]
(b) not more than two days so allotted may be taken in the form of four half days on any day other than a Friday. [unchanged]
Private Members' bills shall have precedence over government business on ten Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House. [unchanged]
On and after the seventh Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence, such bills shall be arranged on the order paper in the following order: consideration of Lords amendments, third readings, consideration of reports not already entered upon, adjourned proceedings on consideration, bills in progress in committee, bills appointed for committee, and second readings. [unchanged]
The ballot for private Members' bills shall be held on the second Thursday on which the House shall sit during the session under arrangements to be made by Mr. Speaker, and each bill shall be presented, by the Member who has given notice of presentation or by another Member named by him in writing to the Clerks at the Table, at the commencement of public business on the fifth Wednesday on which the House shall sit during the session. [unchanged]
Private Members' notices of motions and private Members' bills shall have precedence, in that order, over government business on ten Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House. [unchanged]
On four days other than Fridays in each session to be appointed by the House private Members' notices of motions shall have precedence until seven o'clock and, if not previously concluded, the proceedings thereon shall lapse at that hour and the House shall then proceed with government business. [unchanged]
Ballots for private Members' notices of motions shall be held after questions on such Wednesdays as may be appointed by the House in respect of motions having precedence on Fridays; and on such days as may be appointed by the House in respect of motions having precedence on days other than Fridays. Notice of a subject to be raised on any motion for which a ballot is held in pursuance of this paragraph may be given at the Table or in the Table Office not less than nine days before the day on which the notice of motion is to have precedence. [unchanged]
Until after the fifth Wednesday on which the House shall sit during the session, no private Member shall give notice of a motion for leave to bring in a bill under Standing Order No. 15 (Motions for leave to bring in bills and nomination of select committees at commencement of public business) or for presenting a bill under Standing Order No. 39 (Presentation and first reading). [unchanged]
On Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays the time for private business shall end not later than a quarter to three o'clock and business entered upon and not disposed of at that hour shall be deferred to such time as the Chairman of Ways and Means may appoint. Business not reached shall stand over to the next sitting, or in the case of opposed business until the next sitting other than a Friday. [unchanged]
Opposed business shall include any proceedings on a private bill or a confirming bill which have been deferred under paragraph (2) of this order, so long as a notice of an amendment stands upon the order paper in the form of a notice of motion (other than a notice of motion in the name of the Chairman of Ways and Means) on second reading, consideration or third reading of such bill : Provided that no such notice of motion shall stand on the order paper for more than seven days unless renewed. [unchanged]
Business deferred under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this order shall be considered at the time of private business on the day appointed unless the Chairman of Ways and Means directs that such business shall be set down for seven o'clock on any specified Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, and business so set down (including any motion contingent directly or otherwise upon any item of such business) shall be taken in such order as the Chairman of Ways and Means may determine : Provided that business so set down shall be distributed as nearly as may be proportionately between the sittings on which government business has precedence and other sittings. [unchanged]
On any day specified under paragraph (5) of this order at seven o'clock or as soon thereafter as any motion for the adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 10 (Adjournment on specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration) has been disposed of, the business set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means shall be entered upon and may be proceeded with subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House). [unchanged]
Notices of questions shall be given by Members in writing to a Clerk at the Table or to the Table Office. [unchanged]
Questions shall be taken on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, after private business has been disposed of, and not later than a quarter to three o'clock. [unchanged]
No questions shall be taken after half-past three o'clock, except questions which have not been answered in consequence of the absence of the Minister to whom they are addressed, and questions which have not appeared on the paper, but which are in Mr. Speaker's opinion of an urgent character, and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business. [unchanged]
A Member who desires an oral answer to his question shall distinguish it by an asterisk, but subject to paragraph (5) of this order notice of any such question must appear at latest on the notice paper circulated two days (excluding Sunday) before that on which an answer is desired. [unchanged]
Questions received at the Table Office before half-past two o'clock on a Monday or Tuesday on which the House is sitting may, if so decided by the Member, be put down for oral answer on the following Wednesday or Thursday respectively : Provided that this paragraph shall not apply to questions received on the first day of a session nor to questions received on the day on which the House first meets pursuant to Standing Order No. 143 (Earlier meeting of House in certain circumstances). [unchanged]
Notice of a question shall not be given for oral answer on a day later than ten sitting days after the date of notice. [unchanged]
If a Member does not distinguish his question by an asterisk, or if he is not present to ask it, or if it is not reached by half-past three o'clock, the Minister to whom it is addressed shall cause an answer to be printed in the Official Report of the Parliamentary Debates, unless the Member has before half-past three o'clock signified his desire to postpone the question. [unchanged]
A Member who, while not desiring an oral answer to his question, desires that the answer to it shall be printed in the Official Report on the day for which notice has been given, shall distinguish it with the letter W, and the Minister shall cause the answer to be so printed : Provided that the minimum notice for such a question shall be the same as that prescribed for questions for oral answer. [unchanged]
Whenever the House stands adjourned to a day other than the next day (not being a Saturday or Sunday)- [unchanged]
(a) if the day to which the House stands adjourned is a Monday, notices of questions for oral answer on that Monday shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Thursday ; and notices of questions for oral answer on the Tuesday following shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Friday ; [unchanged]
(b) if the day to which the House stands adjourned is a Tuesday, notices of questions for oral answer on that Tuesday or the Wednesday following shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Friday ; [unchanged]
(c) if the day to which the House stands adjourned is a Wednesday, notices of questions for oral answer on that Wednesday shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Friday ; and notices of questions for oral answer on the Thursday following shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Monday ; [unchanged]
(d) if the day to which the House stands adjourned is a Thursday, notices of questions for oral answer on that Thursday shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Monday ; and [unchanged]
(e) if the day to which the House stands adjourned is a Friday, notices of questions for oral answer on the following Monday shall not be received later than half-past four o'clock on the preceding Thursday: [unchanged]
Provided that this paragraph shall not affect the provisions of paragraphs (4) and (5) of this order if the House should sit on any day on which they are applicable. [unchanged]
A notice of a question, or of an amendment of a motion standing on the order paper for which no day has been fixed or of the addition of a name in support of such a motion or amendment, which is given after half-past ten o'clock in the evening shall be treated for all purposes as if it were a notice handed in after the rising of the House. [unchanged]
On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday a Member rising in his place at the commencement of public business may propose to move the adjournment of the House for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration. If Mr. Speaker is satisfied that the matter is proper to be so discussed, the Member shall either obtain the leave of the House, or, if such leave be refused, the assent of not fewer than forty Members who shall thereupon rise in their places to support the motion, or, if fewer than forty Members and not fewer than ten shall thereupon rise in their places, the House shall, on a division, upon question put forthwith, determine whether such motion shall be made. [unchanged]
If leave is given or the motion is so supported or the House so determines that it shall be made the motion shall stand over until the commencement of public business on the following day (or, on Thursdays, until the commencement of public business on the following Monday) when proceedings upon it shall be interrupted after three hours, or, if Mr. Speaker directs that the urgency of the matter so requires, until seven o'clock on the same day. [unchanged]
A Member intending to propose to move the adjournment of the House under the provisions of this order shall give notice to Mr. Speaker by twelve o'clock, if the urgency of the matter is known at that hour. If the urgency is not so known he shall give notice as soon thereafter as is practicable. If Mr. Speaker so desires he may defer giving his decision upon whether the matter is proper to be discussed until a named hour, when he may interrupt the proceedings of the House for the purpose. [unchanged]
In determining whether a matter is proper to be discussed Mr. Speaker shall have regard to the extent to which it concerns the administrative responsibilities of Ministers of the Crown or could come within the scope of ministerial action. In determining whether a matter is urgent Mr. Speaker shall have regard to the probability of the matter being brought before the House in time by other means. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker shall state whether or not he is satisfied that the matter is proper to be discussed without giving the reasons for his decision to the House. [unchanged]
Proceedings on any business postponed at seven o'clock under this order may be resumed at the conclusion of proceedings on the aforesaid motion for the adjournment of the House unless such motion is agreed to, shall not be interrupted, except as provided in paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business), may be proceeded with for such further period of time as would have been permissible under any orders of the House at seven o'clock had no such motion then been made, and shall not be subject to the provisions of any such orders with regard to the disposal of the business until the conclusion of the said period. [unchanged]
In order to facilitate the business of select or of standing committees a motion may, after two days' notice, be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, in either of the following forms: [unchanged]
(b) ' That this House do now adjourn till seven o'clock this day ' (in which case the question thereon shall be put forthwith) : [unchanged]
Provided that if, on a day on which notice of a motion in the terms of paragraph (a) of this order stands on the paper, leave has been given to move the adjournment of the House at seven o'clock for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration, or opposed private business has been set down by direction of the Chairman of Ways and Means, the motion shall be made in the terms and subject to the procedure prescribed by paragraph (b) of this order. [unchanged]
Whenever a motion shall have been made by a Minister of the Crown for the adjournment of the House for a specified period or periods, any questions necessary to dispose of proceedings shall be put three hours after they have been entered upon, if not previously concluded. [unchanged]
No motion or amendment shall require to be seconded before the question thereon is proposed from the chair. [unchanged]
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, and if given by a Minister of the Crown, on Mondays and Thursdays, notices of motions for leave to bring in bills, and for the nomination of select committees, may be set down for consideration at the commencement of public business. Mr. Speaker, after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes any such motion respectively, shall put either the question thereon, or the question, 'That the debate be now adjourned'. [unchanged]
(a) notice shall be given in the Public Bill Office by the Member in person or by another Member on his behalf, but on any one day not more than one notice shall be accepted from any one Member ; [unchanged]
(b) no notice shall be given for a day on which a notice of motion under this order already stands on the paper ; [unchanged]
(c) no notice shall be given for a day earlier than the fifth or later than the fifteenth sitting day after the day on which it is given ; [unchanged]
Upon Mr. Speaker's direction, the Clerk shall read the orders of the day, without any question being put. [unchanged]
The orders of the day shall be disposed of in the order in which they stand upon the paper, the right being reserved to Her Majesty's Ministers of arranging government business whether orders of the day or notices of motion in such order as they think fit. [unchanged]
Notwithstanding the practice of the House which prohibits in a debate on a motion for the adjournment of the House any reference to matters requiring legislative remedy, Mr. Speaker may permit such incidental reference to legislative action as he may consider relevant to any matter of administration then under debate when enforcement of the prohibition would, in his opinion, unduly restrict the discussion of such matter. [unchanged]
(a) Three days, other than Fridays, before 5th August, shall be allotted in each session for the consideration of estimates. [unchanged]
(a) consideration of estimates or reports of the Liaison Committee relating thereto shall stand as first business ; [unchanged]
(b) other business may be taken before ten o'clock only if the consideration of estimates has been concluded ; and [unchanged]
(c) questions necessary to dispose of proceedings (other than a dilatory motion) on the estimates appointed for consideration under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 101 (Liaison Committee) shall be deferred until ten o'clock. [unchanged]
On a day not later than 6th February, any of the following total amounts may be put down for consideration: [unchanged]
(a) votes on account for the coming financial year ; [unchanged]
(b) supplementary estimates for the current financial year which have been presented at least seven clear days previously. [unchanged]
On a day not later than 18th March any of the following numbers or total amounts may be put down for consideration : [unchanged]
(a) votes relating to numbers for defence services for the coming financial year ; [unchanged]
(b) supplementary estimates for the current financial year which have been presented at least seven clear days previously ; [unchanged]
(c) excess votes, provided that the Committee of Public Accounts have reported that they see no objection to the sums necessary being provided by excess vote. [unchanged]
On a day not later than 5th August, the total amount of estimates which are still outstanding may be put down for consideration. [unchanged]
At least two days' notice shall be given of the votes which are to be put down for consideration under paragraphs (3), (4) or (5) of this order. [unchanged]
On any day to which the provisions of paragraphs (3), (4) or (5) of this order apply Mr. Speaker shall at ten o'clock put the following questions: [unchanged]
(a) on any outstanding vote relating to numbers for defence services for the coming financial year, that that number be maintained for that service ; [unchanged]
(b) that the total amount outstanding in respect of each financial year be granted out of the Consolidated Fund for the purposes defined in the related votes. [unchanged]
On any day on which Mr. Speaker is directed under paragraph (7) of this order to put any question, no dilatory motion shall be made and the proceedings shall not be interrupted under any standing order. [unchanged]
Whenever an order of the day is read for the House to resolve itself into a committee other than a committee on a bill, Mr. Speaker shall leave the chair without putting any question, and the House shall thereupon resolve itself into such committee. [unchanged]
When the chairman of a committee of the whole House has been directed to report progress, or has left the chair to report progress in pursuance of Standing Order No. 1 (Sittings of the House) he shall, if the committee has come to any resolution, so acquaint the House before reporting progress. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker or the chairman, after having called the attention of the House, or of the committee, to the conduct of a Member, who persists in irrelevance, or tedious repetition either of his own argument or of the arguments used by other Members in debate, may direct him to discontinue his speech. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker or the chairman shall order any Member or Members whose conduct is grossly disorderly to withdraw immediately from the House during the remainder of that day's sitting; and the Serjeant at Arms shall act on such orders as he may receive from the chair in pursuance of this order. But if, on any occasion, Mr. Speaker or the chairman deems that his powers under the previous provisions of this order are inadequate, he may name such Member or Members, in which event the same procedure shall be followed as is prescribed by Standing Order No. 25 (Order in debate). [unchanged]
Whenever a Member shall have been named by Mr. Speaker, or by the chairman, immediately after the commission of the offence of disregarding the authority of the chair, or of persistently and wifuly obstructing the business of the House by abusing the rules of the House, or otherwise, then, if the offence has been committed by such Member in the House, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put the question, on a motion being made, ' That such Member be suspended from the service of the House' ; and, if the offence has been committed in a committee of the whole House, the chairman shall forthwith suspend the proceedings of the committee and report the circumstances to the House ; and Mr. Speaker shall on a motion being made forthwith put the same question, as if the offence had been committed in the House itself. Proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. [unchanged]
When a motion is made for the adjournment of a debate or of the House during any debate or of further consideration of a bill or of the Lords amendments to a bill or that the chairman do report progress, or do leave the chair, the debate thereupon shall be confined to the matter of such motion ; and no Member, having moved any such motion, shall be entitled to move any similar motion during the same debate. [unchanged]
If Mr. Speaker, or the chairman, shall be of opinion that a dilatory motion is an abuse of the rules of the House, he may forthwith put the question thereupon from the chair, or he may decline to propose the question thereupon to the House or the committee. [unchanged]
For the purposes of this order the expression ' dilatory motion ' shall include a motion for the adjournment of a debate, or of the House, during any debate, or of further consideration of a bill or of the Lords amendments to a bill, or that the chairman do report progress or do leave the chair. [unchanged]
After a question has been proposed a Member rising in his place may claim to move, ' That the question be now put,' and, unless it shall appear to the chair that such motion is an abuse of the rules of the House, or an infringement of the rights of the minority, the question, ' That the question be now put,' shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
When a question ' That the question be now put ' has been decided in the affirmative, and the question consequent thereon has been decided, a Member may claim that any further question be put which may be requisite to bring to a decision any question already proposed from the chair, and if the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, be not withheld, any question so claimed shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
When a clause or schedule is under consideration, a motion may be made that the question, that certain words of the clause or schedule defined in the motion stand part of the clause or schedule or ' That the clause (or the clause as amended) stand part of the bill ', or ' That this schedule (or, this schedule as amended) be the schedule to the bill', or ' That the clause (or schedule) be aded to the bill ', be now put and if the assent of the chair, as aforesaid, be not withheld, the question on that motion shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
If a division be held upon a question for the closure of debate under Standing Order No. 31 (Closure of debate), that question shall not be decided in the affirmative unless it appears by the numbers declared from the chair that not fewer than one hundred Members voted in the majority in support of the motion. [unchanged]
(1) when to the question ' That a bill be now read a second time (or the third time)' an amendment has been moved to leave out the word 'now', the question shall be 'That the word "now" stand part of the question'; and [unchanged]
(2) on the nineteen days at the disposal of the Leader of Her Majesty's Opposition allotted under Standing Order No. 6 (Arrangement of public business), [unchanged]
(a) where to any substantive motion an amendment has been moved by a Minister of the Crown to leave out a word or words and insert (or add) others, the Question shall be, "That the original words stand part of the Question," and, if that Question be passed in the negative, the Question, "That the proposed words be there inserted (or added)" shall be put forthwith ; [unchanged]
(b) if such amendment involves leaving out all the effective words of the motion Mr. Speaker shall, after the amendment has been disposed of, forthwith declare the main question (as amended or not as the case may be) to be agreed to. [unchanged]
In respect of any motion or any bill under consideration on report or any Lords amendment to a bill, Mr. Speaker shall have power to select the amendments, new clauses or new schedules to be proposed thereto. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker, or in a committee of the whole House, the Chairman of Ways and Means or either Deputy Chairman, may, if he think fit, call upon any Member who has given notice of an amendment, new clause or new schedule to give such explanation of the object thereof as may enable him to form a judgement upon it. [unchanged]
The powers conferred on Mr. Speaker by this order shall not be exercised by the Deputy Speaker save during the consideration of the estimates. [unchanged]
If on the last day on which the motion for an address in answer to Her Majesty's Speech is debated in the House an amendment proposed to the said motion shall have been disposed of at or after the expiration of the time for opposed business, a further amendment selected by Mr. Speaker may thereupon be moved, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
If on an amendment to the question 'That a bill be now read a second time (or the third time)' it is decided that the word ' now ' stand part of the question, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith declare the bill to be read a second or the third time as the case may be. [unchanged]
When the question has been proposed 'That a bill be now read a second (or the third) time' and the question on any amendments to leave out all the words after 'That' and insert other words has passed in the negative, the main question shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
When a public bill (other than a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, or a bill for confirming a provisional order) has been read a second time, it shall stand committed to a standing committee unless the House otherwise order. [unchanged]
A motion to commit a bill to a committee of the whole House or to a select committee, or a motion that it is expedient that a bill be committed to a joint committee of Lords and Commons, may be made by any Member and if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time shall not require notice, and, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
A motion to commit a bill to a standing committee in respect of some of its provisions and to a committee of the whole House in respect of other provisions may be made by the Member in charge of the bill and, if made immediately after the bill has been read a second time, shall not require notice, and may, though opposed, be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. If such a motion is opposed, Mr. Speaker after permitting, if he thinks fit, a brief explanatory statement from the Member who makes and from a Member who opposes the motion shall, without permitting any further debate, put the question thereon. [unchanged]
All committees to which bills may be committed or referred for consideration on report shall have power to make such amendments therein as they shall think fit, provided they be relevant to the subject matter of the bill : but if any such amendments shall not be within the long title of the bill, they shall amend the long title accordingly, and report the same specially to the House. [unchanged]
There shall be a committee, to be called the Business Committee, consisting of the Chairman of Ways and Means, who shall be chairman of the committee, and not more than eight other Members to be nominated by Mr. Speaker in respect of each bill to which this order applies. The quorum of the committee shall be four. The committee- [unchanged]
(a) shall, in the case of any bill in respect of which an order has been made by the House, allotting a specified number of days or portions of days to the consideration of the bill in committee of the whole House or on report, divide the bill into such parts as it may see fit and allot to each part so many days or portions of a day so allotted as it may consider appropriate ; and [unchanged]
(b) shall report its resolution (or resolutions) to the House, and on a motion being made for the consideration of such report the question thereon shall be put forthwith and on consideration of the said report the question ' That this House doth agree with the committee in its resolution (or resolutions) ' shall be put forthwith and, if that question be agreed to, any such resolution shall have effect as if it were an order of the House. [unchanged]
If a motion be made by a Minister of the Crown providing for the allocation of time to any proceedings on a bill Mr. Speaker shall, not more than three hours after the commencement of the proceedings on such a motion, put any question necessary to dispose of those proceedings. [unchanged]
In a committee on a bill the preamble shall stand postponed until after the consideration of the clauses and of any schedules. [unchanged]
In a committee on a bill no questions shall be put for inserting words already printed in italics. [unchanged]
If, during the consideration of a bill in a committee of the whole House, the chairman is of opinion that the principle of a clause or schedule and any matters arising thereon have been adequately discussed in the course of debate on the amendments proposed thereto, he may, after the last amendment to be selected has been disposed of, state that he is of this opinion and shall then forthwith put the question ' That the clause (or, the clause as amended) stand part of the bill ' or ' That this schedule (or, this schedule as amended) be the schedule to the bill ', as the case may be. [unchanged]
When a Member has brought up a clause in committee on a bill or on consideration of a bill on report, it shall be read the first time without any question being put, but no clause shall be offered on consideration of a bill on report without notice. [unchanged]
Save as provided in Standing Order No. 78 (Consideration on report of certain bills by a standing committee) every bill committed to and reported from a standing committee, whether amended or not, shall be considered on report by the House, and the provisions of Standing Order No. 53 (Consideration of bill as amended in committee of whole House) shall apply to such consideration. [unchanged]
If a motion to re-commit a bill as a whole be made, Mr. Speaker shall permit a brief explanatory statement of the reasons for such re-committal from the Member who makes, and a brief statement from a Member who opposes, any such motion, and shall then put the question thereon. [unchanged]
When a bill has been committed to a standing committee, or has been so committed in respect of some of its provisions, then, on consideration on report of the bill or such of its provisions as were so committed, the rule against speaking more than once shall not apply to the Member in charge of the bill or to the mover of any amendment or new clause in respect of that amendment or clause. [unchanged]
The question for the third reading of a public bill shall be put forthwith unless notice has been given by not fewer than six Members of an amendment to the question or of a motion that the question be not put forthwith. [unchanged]
When the order of the day for the consideration of Lords amendments to a public bill has been read, the House shall proceed to consider the same without question put, unless the Member in charge thereof nominates a future day for their consideration. [unchanged]
If Mr. Speaker is satisfied that a Lords amendment imposes a charge upon the public revenue such as is required to be authorised by resolution of the House under Standing Order No. 110 (Certain proceedings relating to public money) and that such charge has not been so authorised, on reaching that amendment, Mr. Speaker shall declare that he is so satisfied and the amendment shall be deemed to have been disagreed to and shall be so recorded in the Journal. [unchanged]
The House may proceed with any public bill brought from the Lords except a bill of aids and supplies provided that- [unchanged]
As many standing committees shall be appointed as may be necessary for the consideration of bills or other business committed or referred to a standing committee. [unchanged]
Subject to the provisions of Standing Order No. 72 (Scottish Standing Committees), the bills committed and statutory instruments or draft statutory instruments or European Community documents as defined in Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business) or measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures referred to a standing committee shall be distributed among the committees by Mr. Speaker. [unchanged]
In all but one of the standing committees to which bills other than bills provided for in Standing Order No. 72 (Scottish Standing Committees) are committed or referred government bills shall have precedence. [unchanged]
Government bills allocated to a particular standing committee shall be considered in whatever order Her Majesty's Ministers may decide. [unchanged]
The chairman or chairmen of each standing committee shall be appointed by Mr. Speaker from the Chairmen's Panel. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker may change the chairmen so appointed from time to time. [unchanged]
When more than one chairman is appointed to a standing committee any of the chairmen so appointed may exercise the powers conferred by paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 68 (Procedure in standing committees). [unchanged]
Any Member of a standing committee may, at the request of the chairman of the committee, act as chairman for not more than a quarter of an hour on any one occasion : Provided that such Member shall not exercise the powers conferred on the chairman of a standing committee by paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 68 (Procedure in standing committees). [unchanged]
(b) the Welsh Grand Committee, and [unchanged]
(c) a standing committee for the consideration of a bill on report, [unchanged]
the Committee of Selection shall nominate not fewer than sixteen nor more than fifty Members to serve on each standing committee for the consideration of each bill, allocated or referred to it, or for the consideration of statutory instruments or draft statutory instruments or European Community documents as defined in Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business) or measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures referred to it. [unchanged]
(i) for the consideration of any public bill certified by Mr. Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland or of a public bill (or part of a public bill) ordered to be considered by a Scottish standing committee, the committee shall be so constituted as to include not fewer than sixteen Members representing Scottish constituencies ; [unchanged]
(ii) for the consideration of any public bill relating exclusively to Wales, the committee shall be so constituted as to include all Members sitting for constituencies in Wales. [unchanged]
Mr. Attorney General, the Lord Advocate, Mr. Solicitor General, and Mr. Solicitor General for Scotland, or any of them, being Members of the House, though not members of a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum. [unchanged]
In a standing committee which is to consider a bill brought in upon a ways and means resolution any Minister of the Crown, being a Member of the House, though not a member of the standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum. [unchanged]
A standing committee to whom a bill or other business has been committed shall meet to consider such business on the day and at the hour named by the Member appointed chairman of the committee in respect of that business. If the consideration of the business is not completed at that sitting the committee shall meet further to consider the business on such days of the week (being days on which the House sits) as may be appointed by the committee at half-past ten o'clock, unless the committee otherwise determines : [unchanged]
Provided that no standing committee shall sit between the hours of one o'clock and half-past three o'clock in the afternoon, except as hereinafter provided. [unchanged]
If a standing committee is not previously adjourned, the chairman shall adjourn the committee without putting any question at one o'clock: Provided that- [unchanged]
(i) if, in the opinion of the chairman, the proceedings on a bill or other business could be brought to a final conclusion by a short extension of the sitting, he may defer adjourning the committee until a quarter past one o'clock; [unchanged]
Except as provided in Standing Order No. 71 (Scottish Grand Committee) the quorum of a standing committee shall be seventeen or one third of the number of its members excluding the chairman, whichever is the less ; and in calculating the quorum fractions shall be counted as one. [unchanged]
Strangers shall be admitted to a standing committee unless the committee otherwise orders. [unchanged]
(a) Any notice of an amendment to a bill which has been committed or referred to a standing committee, or to a motion relating to a document referred to a committee under paragraph (4) of Standing Order No. 80 (Standing Committees on European Community Documents), shall stand referred to the committee, and the chairman shall have the like powers as are given to Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means and either Deputy Chairman respectively by Standing Order No. 34 (Selection of amendments). [unchanged]
(b) Standing Order No. 31 (Closure of debate) and Standing Order No. 32 (Majority for closure) shall apply to standing committees, except that the number necessary to render the majority effective for the closure shall be the number prescribed as the quorum by paragraph (1) of this order. [unchanged]
(c) The chairman of a standing committee shall have the like powers as are given to a chairman of a committee of the whole House under the following standing orders: No. 23 (Irrelevance or repetition) No. 29 (Dilatory motion in abuse of rules of House) No. 50 (Debate on clause or schedule standing part). [unchanged]
(d) The following standing orders shall apply to standing committees: No. 85 (Entry on minutes of proceedings of select committee) No. 86 (Minutes of proceedings to be laid on the Table) No. 89 (Quorum of select committee). [unchanged]
On a division being called in the House or a committee of the whole House the chairman of a standing committee shall suspend the proceedings of the committee for such time as will, in his opinion, enable Members to vote in the division and return to the committee. [unchanged]
All standing committees shall have leave to print and circulate their proceedings with the Vote. [unchanged]
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a public bill be referred to a second reading committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it: Provided that no such notice shall be given until the bill has been printed and delivered to the Vote Office. [unchanged]
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may with the leave of the House be made by the Member in charge of a private Member's bill at the commencement of public business on any day when private Members' bills or notices of motions have precedence under the provisions of Standing Order No. 6 (Arrangement of public business), that the said bill be referred to a second reading committee and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith. If such a motion be agreed to, any order that the said bill be read a second time which stands on the Paper for that or any subsequent day shall be discharged. No such motion shall be made before the seventh Friday on which private Members' bills have precedence and no such notice shall be given until the bill has been printed and delivered to the Vote Office. [unchanged]
A second reading committee shall be a standing committee. [unchanged]
If, after any public bill has been printed, whether introduced in this House or brought from the House of Lords, Mr. Speaker is of opinion that its provisions relate exclusively to Scotland, he shall give a certificate to that effect: Provided that a certificate shall not be witheld by reason only that a provision of that bill amends Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 or Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975. [unchanged]
On the order for the second reading of any such bill being read, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown, ' That the bill be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee', and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on that question being put, not fewer than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it. [unchanged]
A bill so referred to the Scottish Grand Committee shall be considered in relation to the principle of the bill, and shall be reported as having been so considered to the House and shall be ordered to be read a second time upon a future day. [unchanged]
On the order for the second reading of any such bill being read, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown, 'That the bill be committed to a Scottish Standing Committee', and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith: Provided that this paragraph shall not apply in the case of any bill to the second reading of which notice of an amendment has been given by not fewer than six Members. [unchanged]
If such a motion shall have been agreed to, the bill shall be deemed to have been read a second time, and shall be committed to a Scottish Standing Committee. [unchanged]
Proceedings in pursuance of paragraphs (2) and (4) of this order, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. [unchanged]
There shall be a standing committee to be called the Scottish Grand Committee which shall consider- [unchanged]
(a) bills referred to it for consideration in relation to their principle under paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 70 (Public bills relating exclusively to Scotland) ; [unchanged]
(b) bills referred to it under Standing Order No. 78 (Consideration on report of certain bills by a standing committee) ; [unchanged]
(c) Scottish estimates referred to it under Standing Order No. 73 (Scottish estimates) ; and [unchanged]
(d) specified matters referred to it under Standing Order No. 74 (Matters relating exclusively to Scotland). [unchanged]
The Scottish Grand Committee shall consist of all the Members representing Scottish constituencies, of whom a quorum shall be ten. [unchanged]
Whenever any bill, estimate or matter has been referred to the Scottish Grand Committee, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown that, in the course of its consideration thereof, the Committee may meet in Edinburgh on any specified Monday at half-past ten o'clock, and the question on that motion shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it: Provided that nothing in this order shall prevent the committee from considering the same bill, estimate or matter on other days at Westminster. [unchanged]
For the consideration of bills certified by Mr. Speaker as relating exclusively to Scotland and committed to a standing committee or bills committed to a Scottish Standing Committee not more than two standing committees may be appointed. [unchanged]
Government bills shall have precedence in one such standing committee. [unchanged]
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business to the effect that the estimates or any part of the estimates for which the Secretary of State for Scotland is responsible be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith ; and if such motion be agreed to, the Committee shall consider the estimates so referred to it in any session on at least six days in that session and shall from time to time report only that it has considered the said estimates or any of them. [unchanged]
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business to the effect that a specified matter or matters relating exclusively to Scotland be referred to the Scottish Grand Committee for its consideration, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on that question being put, not fewer than ten Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it. [unchanged]
If such a motion be agreed to, the Scottish Grand Committee shall consider the matter or matters to it referred on not more than six days in a session, and shall report only that it has considered the said matter or matters. [unchanged]
There shall be a standing committee to be called the Welsh Grand Committee, which shall consider- [unchanged]
(a) bills referred to it ; and [unchanged]
(b) such specified matters relating exclusively to Wales as may be referred to it [unchanged]
and shall consist of all Members sitting for constituencies in Wales, together with not more than five other Members to be nominated by the Committee of Selection, which shall have power from time to time to discharge the Members so nominated by it and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. [unchanged]
A motion, of which at least ten days' notice has been given, may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that a public bill be referred to the Welsh Grand Committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it : [unchanged]
If such a motion be agreed to, the Committee shall consider the matter or matters to it referred and shall report only that it has considered the said matter or matters. [unchanged]
There shall be a Standing Committee to be called the Northern Ireland Committee which shall consider such specified matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland as may be referred to it and shall consist of all Members sitting for constituencies in Northern Ireland, together with not more than twenty-five other Members to be nominated by the Committee of Selection, which shall have power from time to time to discharge the Members so nominated by it and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged. [unchanged]
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business to the effect that a specified matter or matters relating exclusively to Northern Ireland be referred to the Northern Ireland Committee for its consideration and the question thereon shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
There shall be a Standing Committee to be called the Standing Committee on Regional Affairs which shall consider any matter or matters relating to regional affairs in England which may be referred to it. [unchanged]
All Members sitting for constituencies in England shall be members of the Standing Committee, together with not more than five other Members to be nominated by the Committee of Selection, which shall have power from time to time to discharge the Members so nominated by it and to appoint others in substitution for those discharged, and the provisions of Standing Order No. 66 (Attendance of law officers and ministers in standing committees) shall not apply. [unchanged]
A motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business to the effect that a specified matter or matters relating to regional affairs in England be referred to the Standing Committee for its consideration, and the question thereon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it. [unchanged]
The Committee shall consider the matter or matters referred to it on a motion 'That the Committee has considered the matter or matters'; and the Chairman shall put any question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion, if not previously concluded, when the Committee has sat for two and a half hours after the commencement of those proceedings ; and the Committee shall thereupon report to the House that it has considered the matter or matters without any further question being put. [unchanged]
Six shall be the quorum of the Committee. [unchanged]
A bill which has been considered by a second reading committee or by the Scottish Grand Committee in relation to the principle of the bill may be referred for consideration on report to a standing committee or to the Scottish Grand Committee, as the case may be, upon a motion made after notice by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business ; and the question on such motion shall be put forthwith; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it. [unchanged]
A standing committee to consider bills on report shall consist of not fewer than twenty nor more than eighty Members, to be nominated by the Committee of Selection to serve on the committee for the consideration of each bill referred to it ; and in the nomination of such Members, the Committee of Selection shall have regard to their qualifications and to the composition of the House. [unchanged]
Any committee to which a bill is referred under this order shall report to the House that it has considered the bill and has made amendments or has made no amendment thereunto, as the case may be ; and the bill so reported shall be ordered to be read the third time upon a future day. [unchanged]
There shall be one or more standing committees, to be called Standing Committees on Statutory Instruments, &c., for the consideration of statutory instruments or draft statutory instruments referred to them. [unchanged]
Any Member, not being a member of such a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or make any motion or move any amendment or be counted in the quorum. [unchanged]
(i) a Member has given notice of a motion for an humble address to Her Majesty praying that a statutory instrument be annulled, or of a motion that a draft of an Order in Council be not submitted to Her Majesty in Council, or that a statutory instrument be not made, or that the House takes note of a statutory instrument, or [unchanged]
(ii) A Minister of the Crown has given notice of a motion to the effect that a statutory instrument or draft statutory instrument be approved, [unchanged]
a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that the said instrument or draft instrument be referred to such a committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it. [unchanged]
Each committee shall consider each instrument or draft instrument referred to it on a motion, 'That the committee has considered the instrument (or draft instrument)' ; and the chairman shall put any question necessary to dispose of the proceedings on such a motion, if not previously concluded, when the committee shall have sat for one and a half hours (or, in the case of an instrument or draft instrument relating exclusively to Northern Ireland, two and a half hours) after the commencement of those proceedings ; and the committee shall thereupon report the instrument or draft instrument to the House without any further question being put. [unchanged]
If any motion is made in the House of the kind specified in paragraph 3(i) or 3(ii) of this order, in relation to any instrument or draft instrument reported to the House in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall put forthwith the question thereon and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. [unchanged]
The provisions of this order shall apply to measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures as if such measures and such instruments were statutory instruments ; and the notice referred to in paragraph 3(ii) of this order may, in respect of such measures and instruments, have been given by any Member. [unchanged]
There shall be one or more standing committees, to be called Standing Committes on European Community Documents, for the consideration of European Community documents (as defined in Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business)) referred to them. [unchanged]
Any Member, not being a member of such a standing committee, may take part in the deliberations of the committee, but shall not vote or be counted in the quorum. [unchanged]
Where notice has been given of a motion relating to a European Community document, a motion may be made by a Minister of the Crown at the commencement of public business, that the said document be referred to such a committee, and the question thereupon shall be put forthwith ; and if, on the question being put, not fewer than twenty Members rise in their places and signify their objection thereto, Mr. Speaker shall declare that the noes have it. [unchanged]
Each committee shall consider each such document referred to it on a motion made by a Minister of the Crown to which amendments may be moved, and the chairman shall interrupt proceedings, if not previously concluded, when the committee shall have sat for two and a half hours after the commencement of those proceedings. Thereafter, notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 67 (Meetings of Standing Committees), he shall forthwith put successively- [unchanged]
(a) the question on any amendment already proposed from the Chair ; [unchanged]
(b) the question on any other amendments selected by the Chair which may be moved ; [unchanged]
(c) the main question (or the main question, as amended). [unchanged]
The committee shall thereupon report the document to the House, together with any resolution to which it has come, without any further question being put. [unchanged]
If any motion is made in the House in relation to any document reported to the House in accordance with paragraph (4) of this order, Mr. Speaker shall forthwith put successively- [unchanged]
(a) the question on any amendment selected by him which may be moved ; [unchanged]
(b) the main question (or the main question, as amended) ; [unchanged]
Whenever an order has been made by the House allocating time to the proceedings of a standing committee on any bill which has been allocated or committed to it, the order shall stand referred to that committee, and shall be considered by a sub-committee thereof to be called the business sub-committee. [unchanged]
A business sub-committee shall consist of the chairman or one of the chairmen of the committee (who shall be chairman of the sub-committee) and seven members of the committee, to be nominated by Mr. Speaker as soon as may be after such an order has been made ; the quorum of the sub-committee shall be four, of whom the chairman so nominated shall be one ; and the sub-committee shall have power to report from time to time to the committee. [unchanged]
Whenever a sub-committee has made a report to the committee, the Member in charge of the bill may forthwith move ' That this committee do agree with the business sub-committee in its resolution (or resolutions) ' ; and the question on such a motion shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
Any Member intending to propose that certain Members be members of a select committee, or be discharged from a select committee, shall give notice of the names of the Members whom he intends so to propose, shall endeavour to ascertain previously whether each such Member will give his attendance on the committee, and shall endeavour to give notice to any Member whom he proposes to be discharged from the committee. [unchanged]
No motion shall be made for the nomination of members of select committees appointed under Standing Order No. 99 (Select committees related to government departments), or for their discharge, unless: [unchanged]
To every question or series of questions asked of a witness under examination in the proceedings of a select committee, and at the beginning of each page of the minutes of evidence, there shall be prefixed the name of the inquiring Member. [unchanged]
A select committee may not proceed to business unless a quorum be present ; and if at any time during the sitting of a select committee a quorum shall not be present, the clerk of the committee shall bring this fact to the notice of the chairman, who shall thereupon suspend the proceedings of the committee until a quorum be present, or adjourn the committee. [unchanged]
A select committee shall have power, if it so orders, to admit strangers during the examination of witnesses. [unchanged]
All select committees shall have power to authorise the Clerk of the House to supply copies of their reports to officers of government departments, to such witnesses who have given evidence to committees or to their sub-committees as those committees consider appropriate, to lobby journalists, and to such other press representatives as the committee thinks fit, after those reports have been laid upon the Table but not more than forty-eight hours before the intended time of publication of such reports. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker shall have power to authorise such publication in the case of any such select committee which is no longer in existence. [unchanged]
There shall be a Committee of Privileges. [unchanged]
The Committee of Privileges shall consist of seventeen Members. [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records. [unchanged]
The quorum of the committee shall be six. [unchanged]
There shall be a select committee to be called the Committee of Public Accounts for the examination of the accounts showing the appropriation of the sums granted by Parliament to meet the public expenditure, and of such other accounts laid before Parliament as the committee may think fit, to consist of not more than fifteen Members, of whom four shall be a quorum. The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to report from time to time, and to adjourn from place to place. [unchanged]
Select committees shall be appointed to examine the expenditure, administration and policy of the principal government departments set out in paragraph (2) of this order and associated public bodies, and similar matters within the responsibilities of the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland. [unchanged]
The committees appointed under paragraph (1) of this order, the principal departments of government with which they are concerned, the maximum numbers of each committee and the quorum in each case shall be as follows: [unchanged]
Name of committee | Principal government departments concerned | Maximum numbers of Members | Quorum [unchanged]
1. Agriculture | Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food | 11 | 3 [modified]
2. Defence | Ministry of Defence | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
3. Education, Science and Arts | Department of Education and Science | 11 | 3 [modified]
4. Employment | Department of Employment | 11 | 3 [modified]
5. Energy | Department of Energy | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
6. Environment | Department of the Environment | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
7. Foreign Affairs | Foreign and Commonwealth Office | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
8. Home Affairs | Home Office | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
9. Scottish Affairs | Scottish Office | 13 | 5 [modified]
10. Social Services | Department of Health and Social Security | 11 | 3 [modified]
11. Trade and Industry | Department of Trade and Industry | 11 | 3 [modified]
12. Transport | Department of Transport | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
13. Treasury and Civil Service | Treasury, Management and Personnel Office, Board of Inland Revenue, Board of Customs and Excise | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
14. Welsh Affairs | Welsh Office | 11 | 3 [unchanged]
The Foreign Affairs Committee, the Home Affairs Committee and the Treasury and Civil Service Committee shall each have the power to appoint one sub-committee. [unchanged]
There may be a sub-committee, drawn from the membership of two or more of the Energy, Environment, Trade and Industry, Scottish Affairs, Transport, and Treasury and Civil Service Committees, set up from time to time to consider any matter affecting two or more nationalised industries. [modified]
(a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time ; [unchanged]
(b) to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference ; [modified]
(c) to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before sub-committees ; [unchanged]
(d) to communicate to any other such committee its evidence and any other documents relating to matters of common interest; and [added]
(e) to meet concurrently with any other such committee for the purposes of deliberating, taking evidence, or considering draft reports; [added]
and the sub-committees appointed under this order shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, and to adjourn from place to place, and shall have a quorum of three. [unchanged]
There shall be a select committee to examine the reports of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration, of the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and Wales and of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration for Northern Ireland, which are laid before this House, and matters in connection therewith ; and the committee shall consist of eight Members of whom the quorum shall be three. [unchanged]
(a) to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House, to adjourn from place to place, and to report from time to time ; and [unchanged]
(a) to consider general matters relating to the work of select committees, and [unchanged]
(b) to give such advice relating to the work of select committees as may be sought by the House of Commons Commission. [unchanged]
The committee shall report its recommendations as to the allocation of time for consideration by the House of the estimates on any day allotted for that purpose ; and upon a motion being made that the House do agree with any such report the question shall be put forthwith and, if that question is agreed to, the recommendations shall have effect as if they were orders of the House. [unchanged]
There shall be a select committee to advise Mr. Speaker on the control of the accommodation and services in that part of the Palace of Westminster and its precincts occuped by or on behalf of the House of Commons, and to report thereon to the House. [unchanged]
The committee shall consist of nineteen Members. [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to invite any specially qualified person, whom it may select, to attend any of its meetings in an advisory capacity on any architectural or related matters. [unchanged]
Every such sub-committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records, to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House and to report to the committee from time to time. [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to report from time to time the minutes of evidence taken before sub-committees. [unchanged]
Any sub-committee which may be appointed to deal with the organisation of, and the provision of services in, the Library shall have the assistance of the Librarian. [unchanged]
Any sub-committee which may be appointed to consider the organisation of and services in the Refreshment Department shall have power to appoint specialist advisers for the purpose of particular inquiries, either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the sub-committee's order of reference. [unchanged]
Any sub-committee on computers that may be appointed shall have power to join with any sub-committee thereon that may be appointed by the Select Committee of the House of Lords on House of Lords Offices, to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity relating to the matter referred to it, and to adjourn from place to place within the United Kingdom. [unchanged]
A select committee shall be appointed to join with a committee appointed by the Lords to consider : [unchanged]
(a) a statutory instrument, or a draft statutory instrument ; [unchanged]
(b) a scheme, or an amendment of a scheme, or a draft thereof, requiring approval by statutory instrument ; [unchanged]
(c) any other instrument (whether or not in draft), where the proceedings in pursuance of an Act of Parliament are proceedings by way of an affirmative resolution ; or [unchanged]
but excluding any Order in Council or draft Order in Council made or proposed to be made under paragraph 1 of schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974; [unchanged]
(B) every general statutory instrument not within the foregoing classes, and not required to be laid before or to be subject to proceedings in this House only, but not including measures under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act 1919 and instruments made under such measures: [unchanged]
with a view to determining whether the special attention of the House should be drawn to it on any of the following grounds- [unchanged]
(i) that it imposes a charge on the public revenues or contains provisions requiring payments to be made to the Exchequer or any government department or to any local or public authority in consideration of any licence or consent or of any services to be rendered, or prescribes the amount of any such charge or payment ; [unchanged]
(ii) that it is made in pursuance of any enactment containing specific provisions excluding it from challenge in the courts, either at all times or after the expiration of a specific period ; [unchanged]
(iii) that it purports to have retrospective effect where the parent statute confers no express authority so to provide ; [unchanged]
(iv) that there appears to have been unjustifiable delay in the publication or in the laying of it before Parliament ; [unchanged]
(v) that there appears to have been unjustifiable delay in sending a notification under the proviso to subsection (l) of section four of the Statutory Instruments Act 1946, where an instrument has come into operation before it has been laid before Parliament ; [unchanged]
(vi) that there appears to be a doubt whether it is intra vires or that it appears to make some unusual or unexpected use of the powers conferred by the statute under which it is made ; [unchanged]
(vii) that for any special reason its form or purport call for elucidation ; [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to appoint one or more sub-committees severally to join with any sub-committee or sub-committees appointed by the committee appointed by the Lords ; and to refer to such sub-committee or sub-committees any of the matters referred to the committee. [unchanged]
The committee and any sub-committee appointed by it shall have the assistance of the Counsel to Mr. Speaker and, if their Lordships think fit, of the Counsel to the Lord Chairman of Committees. [unchanged]
(a) a statutory instrument, or a draft of a statutory instrument ; [unchanged]
(c) any other instrument (whether or not in draft), where the proceedings in pursuance of an Act of Parliament are proceedings by way of an affirmative resolution ; [unchanged]
and that it have power to draw such instruments to the special attention of the House on any of the grounds on which the Joint Committee is empowered so to draw the special attention of the House ; and that in considering any such instrument the committee do not join with the committee appointed by the Lords. [unchanged]
There shall be a select committee to consider draft proposals by the Commission of the European Communities for legislation and other documents published for submission to the Council of Ministers or to the European Council whether or not such documents originate from the Commission, and to report its opinion as to whether such proposals or other documents raise questions of legal or political importance, to give its reasons for its opinion, to report what matters of principle or policy may be affected thereby, and to what extent they may affect the law of the United Kingdom, and to make recommendations for the further consideration of such proposals and other documents by the House. [unchanged]
The committee and any sub-committee appointed by it shall have the assistance of the Counsel to Mr. Speaker. [unchanged]
The committee shall have the power to appoint specialist advisers for the purpose of particular inquiries, either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity within the committee's order of reference. [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records ; to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House ; to adjourn from place to place ; and to report from time to time. [unchanged]
Every such sub-committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records ; to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House ; to adjourn from place to place ; and to report to the committee from time to time. [unchanged]
The committee or any sub-committee appointed by it shall have leave to confer and to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on the European Communities or any sub-committee of that committee for the purpose of deliberating and of examining witnesses. [unchanged]
There shall be a select committee to give directions and perform other duties in accordance with the provisions of the Resolution of the House of 26th July 1977 in relation to sound broadcasting, and to make recommendations thereon to the House. [unchanged]
The committee shall consist of six Members. [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to appoint specialist advisers either to supply information which is not readily available or to elucidate matters of complexity relating to the matters referred to it. [unchanged]
The committee shall have leave to confer and to meet concurrently with any committee of the Lords on sound broadcasting for the purpose of deliberating and of examining witnesses. [unchanged]
There shall be a select committee to examine the arrangements made for the compilation, maintenance and accessibility of the Register of Members' Interests ; to consider any proposals made by Members or others as to the form and contents of the Register ; to consider any specific complaints made in relation to the registering or declaring of interests ; to consider what classes of person (if any) other than Members ought to be required to register ; and to make recommendations upon these and other matters which are relevant. [unchanged]
The committee shall consist of thirteen Members. [unchanged]
The committee shall have power to send for persons, papers and records ; to sit notwithstanding any adjournment of the House ; and to report from time to time. [unchanged]
On any day on which the second reading of a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill stands as the first order of the day, the question thereon shall be put forthwith upon the reading of that order, no order shall be made for the committal of the bill and the question for third reading shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
At the conclusion of proceedings on a Consolidated Fund or an Appropriation Bill, a member of the Government may move 'That this House do now adjourn', the motion shall not lapse at ten o'clock, or be interrupted at that hour save for the purpose of moving a motion pursuant to paragraph (2) of Standing Order No. 3 (Exempted business), may be proceeded with at any hour, though opposed, and if proceedings have not been concluded by nine o'clock in the morning at that sitting, the motion shall lapse at that hour, provided that if the sitting shall have commenced on a Thursday, the motion shall lapse at eight o'clock in the morning. [unchanged]
A Minister of the Crown may without notice make a motion for giving provisional statutory effect to any proposals in pursuance of section 5 of the Provisional Collection of Taxes Act 1968 ; and the question on such a motion shall be put forthwith. [unchanged]
When the question has been decided on the first of several motions upon which a bill is to be brought in for imposing, renewing, varying or repealing any charge upon the people, the question on each such further motion shall be put forthwith ; and proceedings in pursuance of this paragraph, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. [unchanged]
In relation to private bills, provisional order bills and bills introduced under the Private Legislation Procedure (Scotland) Act 1936, or the Statutory Orders (Special Procedure) Act, 1945, the standing orders relating to public money shall have effect subject to any exceptions prescribed by the standing orders of this House relating to private business. [unchanged]
In all contracts extending over a period of years, and creating a public charge, actual or prospective, entered into by the government for the coveyance of mails by sea, or for the purpose of communications beyond sea, there shall be inserted the condition that the contract shall not be binding until it has been approved of by a resolution of the House. Proceedings in pursuance of this order, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business. [unchanged]
Every petition presented under Standing Order No. 119 (Presentation of petitions) not containing matter in breach of the privileges of this House, and which, according to the rules or usual practice of this House, can be received, shall on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays be brought to the Table after a member of the government shall have signified his intention to move, That this House do now adjourn, for the purpose of bringing the sitting to a conclusion, or after a Minister of the Crown shall have signified his intention to move, pursuant to Standing Order No. 2 (Sittings of the House (Suspended sittings)), That the proceedings of this day's sitting be suspended, and proceedings under this order shall not be interrupted at ten o'clock, and Mr. Speaker shall not allow any debate, or any Member to speak upon, or in relation to such petition ; but it may be read by the Clerk if required. [unchanged]
In the case of a petition presented under Standing Order No. 119 (Presentation of petitions) and complaining of some present personal grievance, for which there may be an urgent necessity for providing an immediate remedy, the matter contained in such petition may be brought into discussion on the presentation thereof and proceedings under this order shall not be interrupted at ten o'clock and may be proceeded with, though opposed, until any hour. [unchanged]
All petitions presented under Standing Order No. 119 (Presentation of petitions), and not proceeded with under Standing Order No. 121 (Petition as to present personal grievance), shall be ordered to lie upon the Table and to be printed, and the Clerk of the House shall transmit all such petitions to a Minister of the Crown and any observations made by a Minister or Ministers in reply to such petitions shall be laid upon the Table by the Clerk of the House and shall be ordered to be printed. [unchanged]
Whenever it is necessary to proceed forthwith to the choice of a new Speaker in consequence of Mr. Speaker having ceased for any reason to be a Member of this House, the chair shall be taken by that Member, present in the House and not being a Minister of the Crown, who has served for the longest period continuously as a Member of this House. [unchanged]
Whenever it is necessary to proceed to the choice of a new Speaker in consequence of an intimation to Her Majesty by Mr. Speaker of his wish to relinquish that office, then Mr. Speaker shall continue to take the chair and shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of Speaker until a new Speaker has been chosen, whereupon he shall leave the chair and shall cease to perform those duties and to exercise that authority and Mr. Speaker Elect shall take the chair accordingly : [unchanged]
Provided that, if when this House proceeds to choose a new Speaker the unavoidable absence of Mr. Speaker has been announced, Mr. Deputy Speaker shall forthwith leave the chair and the chair shall be taken in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (1) of this order. [unchanged]
A Member taking the chair under the provisions of paragraph (1) of this order shall enjoy all those powers which may be exercised by Mr. Speaker during proceedings under paragraph (2) thereof. [unchanged]
When a motion has been made, in accordance with the provisions of this order, that a certain Member do take the chair of this House as Speaker, a question shall be proposed on that motion and the question on any further such motion shall be put as an amendment thereto. [unchanged]
The Chairman of Ways and Means or a Deputy Chairman shall take the chair as Deputy Speaker, when requested so to do by Mr. Speaker, without any formal communication to the House. [unchanged]
Whenever the House shall be informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence or the absence by leave of the House of Mr. Speaker, the Chairman of Ways and Means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of Mr. Speaker in relation to all proceedings of this House, as Deputy Speaker, until Mr. Speaker resumes the chair or, if he does not resume the chair during the course of the sitting, until the next meeting of the House, and so on from day to day, on the like information being given to the House, until the House shall otherwise order : [unchanged]
Whenever the House has been informed by the Clerk at the Table of the unavoidable absence or the absence by leave of the House both of Mr. Speaker, and of the Chairman of Ways and Means, the First Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means shall perform the duties and exercise the authority of the Speaker in accordance with paragraph (2) of this order ; and if the House should be so informed of the unavoidable absence or the absence by leave of the House of the First Deputy Chairman also, the Second Deputy Chairman shall perform those duties and exercise that authority. [unchanged]
Mr. Speaker shall nominate, at the commencement of every session, not fewer than ten Members to act as temporary chairmen of committees when requested by the Chairman of Ways and Means. [unchanged]
Any oath taken or affirmation made by any witness before the House, or a committee of the whole House, may be administered by the Clerk. [unchanged]
The power conferred upon the Serjeant at Arms by paragraph (1) of this order may, if the chairman so directs, be exercised in respect of strangers present at sittings of select and standing committees. [unchanged]
If at any sitting of the House, or in a committee of the whole House, any Member shall take notice that strangers are present, Mr. Speaker, or the chairman (as the case may be), shall forthwith put the question, ' That strangers do withdraw,' and such question, though opposed, may be decided after the expiration of the time for opposed business : Provided that Mr. Speaker or the chairman may, whenever he thinks fit, order the withdrawal of strangers from any part of the House. [unchanged]
To prevent the intercepting or losing of letters directed to Members of this House, the postmaster of the House or other persons appointed by the Post Office shall attend daily (Sundays excepted) for the delivery and re-direction of all letters arriving in course of post and shall take care, during their stay there, to deliver the same to the several Members to whom they shall be directed, or to their known servant or servants, or other persons bringing notes under the hands of the Members sending for the same. [unchanged]
Whenever the House stands adjourned and it is represented to Mr. Speaker by Her Majesty's Ministers that the public interest requires that the House should meet at a time earlier than that to which the House stands adjourned, Mr. Speaker, if he is satisfied that the public interest does so require, may give notice that, being so satisfied, he appoints a time for the House to meet, and the House shall accordingly meet at the time stated in such notice. [unchanged]
In the event of Mr. Speaker being unable to act owing to illness or other cause, the Chairman of Ways and Means, or either Deputy Chairman, shall act in his stead for the purposes of this order. [unchanged]


Please find some links and notes from the 2 Regular Guys Podcast. If we are in this industry as a business the goal is to turn a profit. Terry and Aaron have seen way too many business struggle just to break even and the main culprit is the inability to truly calculate their costs and then accurately set their prices. This week starts a short 3 part series where Terry and Aaron will discuss calculating your true costs of sublimation. Then they will dive into some pricing strategies and provide you with some great info that can help your business turn a profit.
Terry: So what are we trying to get out of this series of programs over the next 3 weeks?
This is a huge area we hear people struggle with all the time.
Terry: Why not just got these figures from the supplier and plug it into a spreadsheet?
Will a high-cost ink manufacturer really be the one to count on for this?
They will point you to other areas to look at and while it is not untrue or deceitful, it doesn't give you the whole picture.
They will make you focus on time, and we typically do completely undervalue that, the MFGs are going to way overvalue that so you feel like a millionaire day 1.
Terry: Then what is the formula to figure this out?
Want to be factoring in true costs of sublimation blanks and labor, plus a few other areas like the waste, inventory costs, and overhead.
In business for a while and really good at tracking, this is going to be pretty easy, but most are running a business, not conducting a scientific experiment.
We need a more round figure. This info is from actual businesses, not MFG. Desktop printers on the market in the US are going to run about $1.00 per job and 44" printers are going to run about $0.05 for the same size job.
Terry: Can you give us an example then to help us figure this out?
Yes – Error on the high side as it is good to always make sure you can improve your bottom line, not break even.
Terry: So now what should a sublimation business do with that $7.00 cost figure.
We now need to use that cost to them price out our products to help us reach our profit goals and to also cover your overhead costs like rent, electricity and the cell phone.
2 pricing methods. Cost Plus and Market Value. Don't believe cost plus is the way to go, so won't cover it.
Terry: So explain to the listeners how market value pricing works.
Takes more time than Cost Plus, but in the end, will gain you more profit and sales.
A big part of it is doing as much research as you can to what your niche market will pay for that item you are selling.
The second key is to figure out what you can do to the item without increasing the cost much to give it more perceived value – PERSONALIZE!
Take you cost, add a percentage value that will allow you to cover your overhead then whatever beyond that total, which people are willing to pay for that item becomes your profit.
OK and encouraged to slide the price up and down a bit to gain more market research. Use discounts over price changes as much as possible.
Terry: You mentioned personalization as a way to increase the value, can you explain that more and also give us other ways to increase your perceived value.
Start by not offering a price list with price breaks. Sell each product as an individual masterpiece.
Personalization = Mousepads with Name Drops. Picture of Grand Kids over an off the shelf design.
Describe your product differently. For example, if you are selling garments, you would not be selling a T-Shirt, you would be selling moisture-wicking active wear garment that is decorated to last the life of the garment. Signage is another good example. You are not selling a simple sign; rather it is a full-color marketing tool that allows the company to show off their brand while still directing someone to the restroom.
If anyone wants to read more details about this, Aaron has 2 blog posts on his site.