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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 1 Hansard (29 April) . . Page.. 192 ..
MR BERRY (continuing):
Provided further that, if at 10.00 p.m. on each Tuesday, or at 5.30 p.m. on each other sitting day, the question before the Assembly is - That the Assembly do now adjourn - the Speaker shall interrupt the debate, at which time:
Minister may extend debate:
(f) a Minister may require that the debate be extended until 10.10 p.m. or 5.40 p.m., as appropriate, to enable the Ministers to speak in reply to matters raised in the preceding adjournment debate; at 10.10 p.m. or 5.40Ãp.m., as appropriate, or upon the earlier cessation of the debate, the Speaker shall forthwith adjourn the Assembly until the time of its next meeting; or
(g) if no action is taken by a Minister under paragraph (f), the Speaker shall forthwith adjourn the Assembly until the time of its next meeting.Ã.
(3) standing order 74 be omitted and the following standing order be adopted:
ÃRoutine of business
74. The Assembly shall proceed each day with its ordinary business in the following routine:
Prayer or reflection
Presentation of petitions
Questions without notice
Presentation of papers
Ministerial statements, by leave
Matter of public importance
Notices and orders of the day:
Provided that at 2.30 p.m. on each Wednesday and Thursday the Speaker shall interrupt the business before the Assembly in order that questions without notice shall be called on; and
(a) if a vote is in progress at the time fixed for interruption, that vote, and any vote consequent upon that vote, shall be completed and the result announced; and
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