Duties of the Clerk

(1) The Clerk of the House shall keep the Minutes of Proceedings of the House and of Committees of the whole House, and shall circulate copies thereof to the Members as early as practicable and, if possible, on the day following each sitting of the House. (2) Minutes shall record the names of Members attending and all decisions of the House and shall be signed by the Speaker. Belize Constitution 21 (3) In the case of divisions of the House or of a Committee of the whole House, the Minutes shall include the numbers voting for and against the question, the names of Members so voting, and the names (and the number) of Members who declined to vote on the question. (4) The Clerk shall prepare from day to day and keep on the Table of the House and in the Clerk’s office, an Order Book showing all business appointed for any future day, and any Notices of Questions or Motions which have been set down for a future day whether for a day named or not. The Order Book shall be open to the inspection of Members at all reasonable hours. (5) The Clerk shall cause to be printed and circulated to every Member in respect of each sitting of the House an Order Paper setting out the business to be transacted at that sitting. (6) The Clerk shall be responsible for the custody of the votes, records, Bills and other documents laid before the House, which shall be open to inspection by Members of the House and other persons under such arrangements as may be sanctioned by (7) It shall be the responsibility of the Clerk to provide every Select Committee of the House with a clerk and, if so required by the Committee, with a shorthand writer. (8) At the end of each Session, the Clerk shall cause to be prepared and placed in the records of the House a bound volume containing the Minutes of Proceedings of that Session marked with all such corrections as the Speaker may have directed to be made therein. (9) Where a Proclamation of the Governor-General under section 83 of the Belize Constitution, is published in the Gazette, the Clerk shall send to each Member of the House a copy of the Proclamation. CAP. 4. 22 Belize Constitution (10) The Clerk shall be responsible under the Speaker for the administration of the office and the control and discipline of the officers of the House subordinate to him.