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Censure motion, is a motion moved against the government censuring its policy in some direction or an individual minister or ministers of the Government, Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundy, p. 775.

In France too, a motion of no-confidence is called the motion of caesure and when it is adopted by the National Assembly, the Government has to resign, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, pp. 396, 397.

The government is under obligation to allow time for this motion and it invariably allots an early day for the discussion, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 280, Dictionary of Political Science, Joseph Dunner, 1965, p. 83.

Is usually moved by the leader of opposition, the Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philips Laundy, p. 775.

In the House of Commons, a motion of no-confidence in the Government is called a censure motion, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 280.

There are no specific rules for the moving of a censure motion. It is governed by the rules applicable to motions in general, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 671.