Chapter 9 - Motions
and amendments
Determination
of motions
When a motion has been duly moved, in accordance with a notice if
notice is required, and accepted by the chair as a motion conforming with the
rules of the Senate, the senator moving the motion may speak to it and debate
may ensue in accordance with the rules relating to the conduct of debate.
Senators may move amendments to the motion (see under Amendments, below), and
those amendments may be debated in accordance with those rules. At the
conclusion of the debate, the chair puts the questions for any amendments to be
agreed to and then for the motion, as amended if amendments have been made, to
be agreed to, and the Senate votes on the motion.
A senator may move
a motion on behalf of another senator. A motion not moved when called on lapses
and is removed from the Notice Paper. Once moved, a motion is in the possession
of the Senate, and cannot be withdrawn without leave (SO 83).
A motion need not
be seconded when moved, the
procedure of seconding having been abolished in 1981.
The chair may
divide a complicated
motion into two or more parts (SO 84(3); see Chapter 10,
Debate, under Dividing the question).
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