Time for moving instructions

28.78An instruction to a Committee of the whole House upon a bill is usually moved when the order of the day for the first sitting of the committee has been read and before the Speaker has left the Chair,1 except for an instruction founded on a resolution or order which is given when the resolution or order in question has been agreed to by the House.2 In the case of bills referred to public bill or select committees, an instruction can be moved as soon as the bill has been committed,3 or subsequently.4 Instructions have, with the leave of the House, been debated together with the question for second reading,5 but proceedings on instructions are not exempted from interruption under Standing Order No 9, unless a motion to exempt them under Standing Order No 15(2) has been agreed to.

Footnotes

  1. 1. CJ (2007–08) 234.
  2. 2. CJ (1957–58) 290; ibid (1966–67) 510, etc.
  3. 3. CJ (1955–56) 196; ibid (1979–80) 278 (a Private Member's Bill).
  4. 4. CJ (1959–60) 143; ibid (1979–80) 657; ibid (1995–96) 189.
  5. 5. For example, HC Deb (1986–87) 106, c 667.