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Business, List Of

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Business, list of, In the House of Commons, it is called order paper; published every morning under the authority of the speaker; contains the agenda of the sitting for the current day; an item which requires notice but is omitted from the paper is not taken; the items contained therein are (1) Private Business (2) unopposed returns (3) starred questions (4) notices of Public Bills and notions (5) Orders of the Day and Notices of Motions (6) Notices of the various Committees on public matters (7) unshared questions and (8) remaining orders of the day, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, pp. 217-18.

Means the agenda for a day's sitting of the legislature; also called Agenda Paper. The Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth -- Philip Laundy, p. 511.

Business: list of, is prepared in the order in which items of business stand in it, Handbook for Members of Lok Sabha, Lok Sabha Secretariat, 13th Edn., 1999, p. 73.

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