Notice of Motions or Amendments

(1) Where under any Standing Order notice of Motion or of an amendment is required, such notice shall be given in writing signed by the Member and addressed to the Clerk of the House. Such notice shall be handed to the Clerk, or sent to, or left at, the Clerk’s office during the hours prescribed for the purpose. (2) If the Speaker is of opinion that any notice of Motion which has been received by the Clerk infringes the provisions of any Standing Order or is in any other way out of order, he may directBelize Constitution 37 (a) that the Member concerned be informed that the notice of Motion is out of order; or (b) that the notice of Motion be entered in the Order Book with such alterations as he may direct. (3) Not more than three notices of Motion in the name of the same Member may by entered on the Order Paper of any sitting. The provisions of this paragraph shall not apply to a Member who is a Minister. (4) Copies of Motions and amendments sent to the Clerk shall be circulated by him to Members, whether or not they be matters of which notice is required, and, in the case of amendments to Bills, shall be arranged, so far as may be, in the order in which they will be proposed.