Section 56: Select Committee on Bills

56. Select Committee on Bills (1) The provisions of Standing Order 55 (a) to (j) and (l) shall apply to the consideration of Bills by a Select Committee. (2) A Select Committee to which a Bill shall have been referred shall present a report to the Assembly explaining its recommendations, and if the recommendations involve any amendments a reprint of the Bill shall be attached to the report with all amendments printed in italics and all deletions clearly indicated, and a copy of the Bill so amended shall be distributed to every Member. (3) The report of a Select Committee upon a Bill shall be presented by the Chairperson of the Committee and the report shall be set down for consideration on a day appointed by the Chairperson. (4) Consideration of a Bill reported from a Select Committee shall take place upon a motion “That the report from the Select Committee be approved”. (5) Upon consideration of a Bill reported from a Select Committee, the Assembly shall consider only those amendments, if any, made by the Committee, but may further amend those amendments. (6) (a) Upon consideration or a Bill reported from a Select Committee, a motion may be made by any Member that the Bill be recommitted to the Select Committee with reference to particular amendments made by the Select Committee. (b) Upon consideration of a Bill reported from a Select Committee, a motion may be made by any Member that the Bill be recommitted to a Committee of the whole Assembly either wholly or in respect of some particular part or parts or of some proposed new clause or new schedule. (c) A motion made under paragraph (1) or (2) of this Order shall be in the form of an amendment to a motion made under paragraph (4) of this Order by adding the words “subject to the re-committal of the Bill . . . . “ (to the Select Committee of the whole Assembly, as the case may be, or for the purpose indicated).