Procedure on Bills Reported from Select Committee

(1) When a Bill has been reported from a Select Committee, the Senate may proceed to consider the Bill as reported from the Select Committee upon a Motion “That the report of the Select Committee on …………………..... Bill be adopted” moved under paragraph (7) of Standing Order No. 75 (Reports from Select Committees). If no amendment is proposed to such Motion, the question on the Motion shall be decided forthwith without debate. (2) If that Motion is agreed to without amendment, the Senate may proceed to the third reading of the Bill as reported from the 144 Belize Constitution (3) Upon a Motion to adopt the report of the Select Committee on a Bill, any Senator may propose an amendment to add, at the end of the Motion, the words “subject to the recommittal of the Bill (either wholly or in respect only of some particular part or parts of the Bill or some proposed new clause or new schedule) to a Committee of the whole Senate”, and if that Motion is agreed to with such an amendment, the Bill shall stand so recommitted and immediately thereafter the Senate may then resolve itself into a Committee to consider the business so recommitted. (4) A Committee of the Whole Senate upon a Bill recommitted under the provisions of this Standing Order shall proceed in accordance with paragraph (2) or paragraph (3) of Standing Order No. 57 (Recommittal of Bill reported from Committee of the whole Senate), and the conclusion of its proceedings and the remaining proceedings on the Bill shall be subject to paragraph (4) of that Order.