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Members' Procedural Handbook December 2016 Yukon Legislative Assembly ______________________________________________________________________ Members’ Procedural Handbook December 2016 Table of Contents YUKON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY.......................................................................................................1 Governing Structure ................................................................................................................... 2 History ................................................................................................................................... 2 Representative and Responsible Government ..................................................................... 2 The Growth of the Assembly a .............................................................................................. 4 The Yukon Legislative Assembly Today ................................................................................. 6 The Yukon Legislative Assembly Building .............................................................................. 7 LEGISLATURE AND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ....................................................................................9 Legislature .................................................................................................................................. 9 Composition .......................................................................................................................... 9 Legislative Power ................................................................................................................... 9 Legislatures and Sessions ...................................................................................................... 9 Prorogation .......................................................................................................................... 10 Legislative Assembly ................................................................................................................ 10 Membership and Composition ............................................................................................ 10 Oaths ................................................................................................................................... 11 Sittings and Sitting Days ...................................................................................................... 12 Adjournment ....................................................................................................................... 13 Duration and Dissolution ..................................................................................................... 13 Table Officers ........................................................................................................................... 14 Legislative Papers ..................................................................................................................... 15 Order Paper ......................................................................................................................... 15 Votes and Proceedings ........................................................................................................ 16 Journals of the Assembly ..................................................................................................... 16 Sessional Papers and Filed Documents ............................................................................... 16 Legislative Returns .............................................................................................................. 17 Hansard ............................................................................................................................... 17 PRESIDING OFFICERS OF THE LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY ..................................................................18 The Speaker .............................................................................................................................. 18 Election ................................................................................................................................ 18 Duties ................................................................................................................................... 19 Participation in Debate and Voting ..................................................................................... 19 Speaker's Procession ........................................................................................................... 20 The Mace ............................................................................................................................. 20 Deputy Speaker and Chair of Committee of the Whole .......................................................... 22 Election ................................................................................................................................ 22 Substitution in Speaker's Absence ...................................................................................... 22 Duties as Chair of Committee of the Whole ....................................................................... 22 Deputy Chair of Committee of the Whole ............................................................................... 23 Election ................................................................................................................................ 23 Duties ................................................................................................................................... 23 PRIVILEGE AND ORDER ..................................................................................................................24 ii Parliamentary Privilege ....................................................................................................... 24 Personal Privilege ................................................................................................................ 25 Order and its Distinction from Privilege .............................................................................. 26 Raising Questions of Privilege ............................................................................................. 26 Raising Points of Order ........................................................................................................ 27 Decorum in the Chamber ......................................................................................................... 28 Standing Orders Respecting Order and Decorum ............................................................... 30 BUSINESS OF THE ASSEMBLY .........................................................................................................32 Parliamentary Procedure ......................................................................................................... 32 Quorum ............................................................................................................................... 33 Unanimous Consent ............................................................................................................ 33 Daily Routine ............................................................................................................................ 34 Tributes ................................................................................................................................ 35 Introduction of Visitors ....................................................................................................... 35 Tabling Returns and Documents ......................................................................................... 35 Presenting Reports of Committees ..................................................................................... 36 Petitions ............................................................................................................................... 36 Introduction of Bills ............................................................................................................. 37 Notices of Motion ................................................................................................................ 38 Ministerial Statement .......................................................................................................... 38 Oral Question Period ........................................................................................................... 38 Orders of the Day ..................................................................................................................... 39 Motions .................................................................................................................................... 39 Bills ........................................................................................................................................... 41 Money Bill ............................................................................................................................ 41 How A Bill Becomes Law .......................................................................................................... 42 Introduction and First Reading ............................................................................................ 42 Second Reading ................................................................................................................... 43 Committee Stage ................................................................................................................. 43 Third Reading .....................................................................................................................
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