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24does not immediately comply his conduct shall be deemed grosslydisorderly.(2) The Speaker, in any case where he considers that a Member hasdeliberately made a remark or statement defamatory of another Memberor which contains a personal reference to any person which has nodirect relevance to the subject under discussion, may require him towithdraw that remark or statement, and order that such remark orstatement be not included in any record of the meeting. If the Memberrefuses to withdraw his remark or statement, his conduct shall bedeemed to be grossly disorderly.(3) Where any Member has conducted himself in a manner which is grosslydisorderly the Speaker may, after giving the Member an opportunity tobe heard, either -(a)(b)reprimand the Member; ororder that a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars be deductedfrom any salary or allowance which may be due or become due tothe Member by virtue of his Membership and paid into theConsolidated Fund; or(c) suspend the Member for a period not exceeding fourteen sittingdays; or(d) impose two or more of the foregoing penalties.(4) Any Member may raise the matter of the grossly disorderly behaviour ofanother Member as though it were a matter of privilege under order 25and, if it is the opinion of the Speaker that the conduct complained of iscapable of being found to be grossly disorderly the Speaker shall expressthe opinion for the purposes of order 25(4) that the matter raised mayaffect the privilege of Parliament.(5) On a motion moved under order 25(4) for the purposes of this order itmay be moved that the Member suffer any one or more of the penaltiesset out in paragraph (2) of this order and if passed such motion shalltake effect immediately.(6) Where any Member is suspended, he shall withdraw immediately fromthe House and shall not return until his period of suspension hasexpired and the Sergeant-at-Arms shall act on behalf of the House toensure compliance with this order.PART KVOTING40. DECISION ON QUESTIONSAll questions proposed for decision committee shall be determined inaccordance with section 71 of the Constitution.
2541. COLLECTION OF VOICES(1) When the debate upon a question is concluded the Speaker shall put thequestion to Parliament or the committee and, if it shall not have beenheard, shall again put it to Parliament or to the committee.(2) Every Member present in the House when the question is put is requiredto vote and in case he shall not have heard the question put, the Speakershall again put the question.(3) Having put the question the Speaker shall call upon those Members infavour to say "Aye" and immediately thereafter call upon those Memberswho are against the question to say "No".(4) As soon as the Speaker has collected the voices of the Ayes and of theNoes, the question being then fully put no other Member may speak on it.(5) The Speaker may, according to his judgment of the number of voices oneither side, then state that he thinks the Ayes have it or that he thinks theNoes have it, as the case may be; and if no Member challenges hisstatement as provided in the next succeeding paragraph he shall declarethe question to have been decided.(6) If a Member challenges the statement of the Speaker that he thinks theAyes or the Noes have it by claiming a division, then the Speaker shallorder Parliament or the committee, as the case may be, to proceed to adivision and the division shall be held forthwith in the manner prescribedin order 42.(7) Notwithstanding paragraph (4) of this order the Speaker may if in hisopinion the division is unnecessarily claimed, take the vote of Parliamentor the committee by calling upon the Members who support or whochallenge his decision successively to rise in their places and he shallthereupon, as he sees fit, either declare the determination of Parliament orthe committee or order a division.42. DIVISIONS(1) When a division has been ordered a bell shall be rung for two minutesunless all Members be sooner present. On the conclusion of that time thevotes shall be taken by the Clerk who shall ask each Member seated inthe House by the time the bell has ceased to ring separately how hewished to vote. A Member shall upon his name being called give hisvote by saying "Aye" or "No" or by expressly stating that he abstainsfrom voting.(2) As soon as the Clerk has taken the votes the Speaker shall state thenumbers voting for the Ayes and for the Noes respectively and shall alsostate the number of abstentions and then declare the result of thedivision.
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Page 3 and 4: 21. Notice of Questions.22. Content
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