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Closure. See CLOTURE. Means the permanent closing down of a place of employment or part thereof. [The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 (14 of 1947), s. 2 (cc)]

Closure, in the House of Commons a member may rise in his place and move 'That the question be now put'. That question must be put forthwith, without amendment or debate, unless it appears to the chair that the motion is an abuse of the Rules of the House or an infringement of the rights of minority, Parliamentary Practice, Erskine May, 22nd Edn., 1997, p. 407.

Means closing, closed condition, Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler & F.G. Fowler, p. 226.

In Indian Parliament in order to bring a debate to a close, a member may rise and move 'That the question be now put'. The acceptance of a closure motion lies within the sole discretion of the Speaker. Before he accepts it, he considers whether the question before the House has received adequate debate or not, whether or not the views of opposition have been adequately expressed before the House. The Speaker also intervenes by restricting the closure to occasions when a motion is made not in abuse of the Rules of the House or infringement of the rights of minority. The discretion that the Speaker exercises in the matter of accepting a proposal for closure or in refusing it is entirely absolute and is not open to debate. No debate is allowed on a closure motion, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 362(LS).

Is the procedure by which a debate may be terminated by a majority decision of the House, even through all members wishing to speak have not done so. In the House of Commons, closure was instituted as a result of the action taken by Speaker Brand on February, 1881, in terminating a debate on his own responsibilities after a debate lasting 41' hours during which the Irish members had deliberately protracted the debate on the motion for leave to bring in the Protection of Person and Property Bill. Office of the Speaker in the Parliaments of Commonwealth, Wilding and Philip Laundry, p. 139.

Means a decision by vote of House of Commons, under certain restrictions, to put the question without further debate, Concise Oxford Dictionary, H.W. Fowler & F.G. Fowler, p. 226.