Expunction of remarks, in Parliament, deletion of defamatory, indecent, unparliamentary or undignified words, phrases or expressions from the proceedings of the House by an order of the Speaker, Handbook of Members of Lok Sabha Secretariat, 13th Edn., 1999, p. 71.
Is an act of striking out, erasion, deletion or cancellation, Webster American Dictionary, p. 410.
In British Parliament, if a member uses disorderly, offensive or unparliamentary words in a debate, immediate notice is taken if such words. If a member desires that such words be noted, he has to repeat those words exactly as they were spoken. If the Speaker or Chairman is of the view that the words spoken were disorderly or after ascertaining sense of the House directs the clerk to take down such words, he asks the member to withdraw them. If the member refuses to do so or does not offer apology Speaker repeats his call and if the member does not respond to it, Speaker takes action in pursuance of S.O. 43, Practice and Procedure of Parliament, M.N. Kaul and S.L. Shakdher, 5th Edn., 2001, p. 1004.
The portion of the proceedings of the House expunged by the order of the Speaker is marked by asterisks and an explanatory footnotes saying 'Expunged as ordered by the Chair' is inserted in the proceedings of the House, Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha, 10th Edn., 2002, r. 381.
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