Section 64: Rules and Standing Orders

64. Rules and Standing Orders (1) Subject to this Act, the Regional Assembly shall make Rules and Standing Orders to provide for— (a) the regulation and conduct of the proceedings and meetings of the Regional Assembly including records of proceedings of the Regional Assembly; (b) the maintenance of order in the Chamber of the Regional Assembly; (c) the conduct of debates in the Regional Assembly; (d) the suspension of members; (e) such other matters as the Regional Assembly considers fit. (2) Rules and Standing Orders of the Regional Assembly may be made by a simple majority of members. (3) The Rules and Standing Orders of the Regional Assembly may provide that the records of the proceedings of any meeting, shall, when copies thereof have been circulated to members, be taken as read. (4) The Standing Orders and Rules set out in the Seventh Schedule to this Act shall, until such time as the Regional Assembly would have made its own Standing Orders and Rules, to be the Standing Orders and Rules of the Regional Assembly. R30 – 27 [Issue 1] Rodrigues Regional Assembly Act (5) Subject to Part V, the practice of the National Assembly shall be followed where Standing Orders and Rules made under subsections (1) and (4) do not make provision for any matter arising in Regional Assembly. (6) For the purposes of subsection (5), in cases of doubt, a certificate under the hand of the Clerk of the National Assembly shall be sufficient evidence of the practice followed at the Assembly. [S. 64 amended by s. 3 of Act 28 of 2002.]