Standing Orders β Sessional
According to a determination of the Business Committee, I move, That Standing Orders 148 and 150 be suspended and the following rule adopted:
Procedure for personal vote
(1) In a personal vote,β
(a) the bells are rung for the period set out in Standing Order 149:
(b) the Speaker directs the Ayes to go to the right, the Noes to the left, and abstentions to the Table:
(c) the doors are closed and locked as soon after the bells have stopped as the Speaker directs, and the Speaker then restates the question:
(d) all members present within the Chamber or the lobbies when the doors are locked must vote or record their abstentions:
(e) the Clerk counts all votes and abstentions and records membersβ names:
(f) the Speaker declares the result to the House.
(2) Members may observe the voting in any part of the Chamber and in the lobbies.
Motion agreed to.
π£οΈ Spoke in this debate (1)
- Hon Grant Robertson (New Zealand Labour Party β Member for Wellington Central)