Days of Sitting

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) of this Standing Order the Senate shall meet on Tuesdays, and every adjournment of the Senate shall be to the next Tuesday unless the Senate upon a Motion moved by a Senator otherwise decides. Notice of such a Motion shall not be required, and the question thereon shall be put without amendment or debate, Days of Meeting. provided, that in every year there shall be three periods of six weeks each, the first commencing from the Saturday preceding Holy Week, the second from the first day of August, and the third from the seventeenth day of December, during which the 106 Belize Constitution Senate shall not meet except in pursuance of a summons issued under paragraph (3) of this Standing Order. (2) If at any time when the Senate stands adjourned pursuant to its own order it is represented to the President by a Minister or the Senator responsible for Government Business that there is urgent necessity for the Senate to meet upon a day earlier than the day to which the Senate stands adjourned, the President may, if he is satisfied that such urgent necessity exists, direct the Clerk to summon a meeting of the Senate for such time on such day, whether Tuesday or otherwise, as the President may determine. (3) Every direction under paragraph (2) of this Standing Order shall be in writing and shall be signed by the President and shall bear the date upon which it is given to the Clerk and shall specify the business to be transacted at such meeting. (4) Forthwith upon receipt of any direction under paragraph (3) of this Standing Order, the Clerk shall inform every member, as expeditiously as possible and personally if practicable, of the day and hour appointed by the President for the holding of the special meeting of the Senate and of the business to be transacted at such meeting. (5) Except by leave of the Senate, no business otherwise than the business specified in the directive under paragraph (2) of this Standing Order shall be transacted at any special meeting of the Senate under the said paragraph.