Section 15: Arrangement of business

15. Arrangement of business (1) The business of the Assembly at each sitting shall be set down upon the Order Paper and transacted in the following order— (a) administration of Oath/Affirmation by a new Member; (b) messages from the President of the Republic; (c) announcements; (d) presentation of papers, including reports of committees, by laying on the Table; (e) Assembly Bills enacted by Parliament; (f) Regional Assembly Regulations negatived by the National Assembly; (g) questions, except as provided for under Standing Orders 9 (9) and at the sitting convened for the purposes of section 12, 13 and 14 of the Act; (h) statements by Commissioner; (i) requests for leave to move motions for the Adjournment for the Assembly on matters of urgent public importance; (j) personal explanations; (k) any motion, Bill or other business which, in the opinion of the Chairperson, should precede the remaining business of the day; (l) motions of which notice has been given; (m) Bills. (2) The Chairperson may, at any time, allow the Orders of Business set out on the Order Paper, to be altered in respect of any particular sitting or sittings. (3) Notwithstanding anything in these Standing Orders, a Commissioner may, without notice, move to take the time of the Assembly for urgent business and such question shall be decided without amendment or debate.