Orders and motions not reached before the moment of interruption or before the adjournment of the House

19.34If the orders of the day which were not reached by the moment of interruption are read at the Table (see para 17.9 ), a Member in charge of an order has the opportunity, by saying ‘Now’ when the title of their bill is called, to secure its passing the stage at which it stands, if no objection is raised by another Member, and also, similarly, if no objection is raised, of its passage through further stages. A single objection, however, stops proceedings (see para 17.9 ), and it then only remains for a Member in charge of an order to name a day to which it is to be deferred (Standing Order No 9(5)). This action is in theory a motion but no question is put on it, the Speaker merely announcing the day proposed by the Member. A bill may also be deferred at the Table by the Member in charge.1 In the absence of the Member in charge and of any other Member acting on their behalf, or of written instructions to the Table by or on behalf of the Member in charge, that a bill should be deferred to a certain day, the bill concerned automatically becomes a ‘dropped order’ until the Member in charge gives instructions that it should be revived.2 The announcement of a day by the Speaker secures its entry in the Votes and Proceedings and in the Future Business (see paras 7.14 and 7.3 ).

As set out at para 17.14, under Standing Order No 9(5), orders of the day which, owing to the suspension of a sitting, or to an adjournment of the House, or to the prolongation of the previous sitting, have not been disposed of before the termination of the sitting, are set down upon the Notice Paper after the orders of the day appointed for the next sitting of the House, subject to the right of the Government to arrange the order of its business, whenever such business has priority.3

A notice of motion standing upon the Notice Paper for the day's sitting, which is not brought on before the adjournment of the House, disappears from the paper, unless the Member in whose name the notice stands, or a Member on their behalf, gives a direction to the Table Office for the replacement of the notice upon the Notice Paper for a future day.