UNDER THE RULES OF PROCEDURE AND CONDUCT OF BUSINESS IN LOK SABHA Ninth Edition LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT NEW DELHI 2019
April, 2019 Price : Rs. 50.00 © 2019 BY LOK SABHA SECRETARIAT, NEW DELHI Published under Rule 382 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha (Sixteenth Edition) and printed by M/s. Aegean Offset, New Delhi.
In pursuance of the provisions of rule 389 and other rules of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, the Speaker of Lok Sabha has been issuing Directions from time to time for regulating, subject to the provisions of the rules, certain matters not specifically provided for in the rules and also certain matters relating to the detailed working of the rules under the inherent powers of the Speaker. 2. The First Edition of the Directions was brought out in 1956 and the Second Edition in 1957. The Second Edition was reprinted in 1962, 1967 and 1971. 3. The Third Edition of the Directions incorporating all the amendments made upto March, 1977 was brought out in 1977. No amendments were made nor new Directions issued during the Sixth Lok Sabha. 4. During the Seventh Lok Sabha, the Speaker, under rule 389, issued a new Direction regarding authentication of papers to be laid by private members. It had been incorporated in the reprint of the Third Edition. 5. During the Eighth Lok Sabha, the Speaker, under rule 389 issued certain new Directions and also made amendments to certain Directions. These had been incorporated in the Fourth Edition. 6. During the Ninth Lok Sabha, the Speaker, under rule 389, made certain amendments to Direction 10A regarding admissibility of questions. These amendments were incorporated in the ‘January, 1995 Reprint’, of the Fourth Edition. No amendments were made nor any new Directions issued during the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Lok Sabha. However, the Fifth Edition of the Directions by the Speaker was brought out in March, 2004. (i)
7. During the Fourteenth Lok Sabha, the Speaker issued a new Direction 73A regarding implementation of the Committees’ recommendations. This new Direction 73A had been included in the Sixth Edition of the Directions by the Speaker. 8. During the Fifteenth Lok Sabha, two new Directions 10B and 51A issued by the Speaker and amendments to Directions 15, 16, 16A, 17 and 18 were incorporated in the July, 2010 Seventh Edition of the Directions by the Speaker. A reprint of the Seventh Edition was brought out in October, 2013. 9. Subsequently, gender neutral Directions as recommended by the Rules Committee in their Second Report and approved by the Speaker came into force with effect from 13 February, 2014. Certain amendments were made to Direction 38(3) relating to Petitions and Direction 115B(1) relating to simultaneous interpretation facility in three more languages viz. Maithili, Manipuri and Nepali. There amendments as well as gender neutral rules were incorporated in Eighth Edition of the Directions. 10. During Sixteenth Lok Sabha, amendments were made to Directions 10B and 124A and they have been incorporated in this Edition of the Directions. 11. Words and expressions used in the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha and also in these Directions shall, unless the context otherwise requires, have the meaning assigned to them in the Rules. NEW DELHI; April, 2019 SNEHLATA SHRIVASTAVA, Secretary-General.
PAGE CHAPTER I OATH OR AFFIRMATION 1. Oath or affirmation ................................................ 1 CHAPTER II ARRANGEMENT OF BUSINESS BUSINESS BEFORE THE HOUSE 2. Relative precedence of different classes of business ........................................................... 2 BALLOT OF PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS 3. Ballot .................................................................... 4 4. Notices of resumption of adjourned debate .......... 4 5. Order of ballot of Bills ........................................... 4 6. Result of ballot ..................................................... 4 7. Treatment of Bills introduced after ballot .............. 5 8. Treatment of notices of next motions and arrangement of business ...................................... 5 BALLOT RELATING TO PRIVATE MEMBERS’ RESOLUTIONS 9. Procedure of ballot ............................................... 5 ARRANGEMENT OF PRIVATE MEMBERS’ RESOLUTIONS IN LIST OF BUSINESS 9A. Saving of first priority resolution ........................... 6 STATUTORY RESOLUTIONS 9B. Statutory Resolutions ........................................... (iii) 6
PAGE CHAPTER III QUESTIONS 10. Consolidation of questions on same or allied subject .................................................................. 7 10A. Admissibility of questions .................................... 7 10B. Limit of number of questions ................................ 8 11. List of starred questions ....................................... 8 12. Printing of questions in proceedings ..................... 8 13. Supply of statements in answer to starred questions to members concerned in advance and treatment thereof ........................................... 9 13A. Answers to questions to be complete ................... 9 14. Answering together of starred questions on same or allied subject ........................................... 10 15. (Omitted) .............................................................. 10 16. Procedure for Ministers correcting answer to starred/short notice questions .............................. 10 16A. (Omitted) .............................................................. 11 17. Advance copies of statements by Ministers correcting answers and procedure after statements made .................................................. 11 Answering of short notice questions of absent members .............................................................. 12 18. CHAPTER IV HALF-AN-HOUR DISCUSSIONS 19. Laying of statement in reply ................................. 13
PAGE CHAPTER V LEGISLATION INTRODUCTION AND PUBLICATION OF BILLS 19A. Notice for leave to introduce Government Bills ..... 14 19B. Prior circulation of Bills for introduction ................ 14 OPINION ON BILLS 20. Circulation of Bills for eliciting opinion .................. 14 21. Time limit for eliciting opinion ............................... 15 22. Printing of opinions as Papers to Bills .................. 15 23. Treatment of opinions in languages other than English and Hindi .................................................. 15 24. Laying of Papers to Bills ....................................... 15 25. Mode of laying of Papers to Bills .......................... 16 26. Precis of opinions ................................................. 16 PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS 27. Classification and allocation of time ..................... 16 28. Clubbing of names in case of notices of identical Bills ........................................................ 16 29. Giving of authority for introduction of Bill .............. 17 30. Giving of authority to pilot Bill after introduction ... 17 AMENDMENTS TO BILLS 31. Insertion of new clause ......................................... 17 CORRECTION IN BILLS 32. Procedure for corrections in Bills .......................... 18 INDICATION IN DEBATES REGARDING CORRECTION OF PATENT ERRORS IN BILLS 33. Incorporation of corrections in Debates ................ 18
PAGE BILLS AS PASSED 34. Scrutiny, change of year and authentication ......... 19 35. Laying of Bills after assent ................................... 19 WITHDRAWAL AND REMOVAL OF BILLS 36. 37. Advance circulation of reasons for withdrawal of Government Bills .................................................. 19 Removal of pending Bills from Register of Bills .... 19 CHAPTER VI PETITIONS 38. Examination and presentation .............................. 20 39. Withdrawal of defective petitions .......................... 20 40. Admissibility of petitions ...................................... 20 CHAPTER VII MOTIONS 41. Classification of motions ...................................... 22 42. Member to be shown in proceedings as mover of motion, amendment or cut motion .................... 24 Amendment or cut motion moved but not put to vote ............................................................ 24 44. Amendment or motion moved but not pressed ..... 24 45. Order of putting substitute motions to vote .......... 24 46. Date for report in motion for reference of a Bill to Select/Joint Committee .................................... 25 Withdrawal of private members’ Bill ...................... 25 43. 47. CHAPTER VIIA CALLING ATTENTION 47A. Procedure when two Calling Attention admitted for a day ............................................................... 26
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