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  • Amendments And Requests For Amendments

    Amendments And Requests For Amendments

    Australia Legal DefinitionsProposals to alter a bill, which may be moved by any senator or member. Any amendments made by one House must be agreed to by the other House before a bill can become law. The Senate may not amend bills imposing taxation or appropriating money for the […]

  • Second Reading Amendments

    Second Reading Amendments

    Australia Legal DefinitionsProposed resolutions which comment on or affect the passage of bills, but do not propose specific changes to the text of bills.

  • Schedules Of Amendments

    Schedules Of Amendments

    Australia Legal DefinitionsLists of amendments to bills, agreed to by the Senate, which are forwarded to the House of Representatives for consideration.

  • Running Sheet

    Running Sheet

    Australia Legal DefinitionsA checklist of amendments used by senators when considering bills in the committee of the whole. Running sheets show all proposed amendments, identified by subject matter and grouped as needed; conflicts between amendments; relevant references in the bills under […]

  • Questions On Notice

    Questions On Notice

    Australia Legal DefinitionsWhen referred to in the context of the Senate, these are written questions to ministers from other senators. Questions on notice in the context of estimates proceedings are written or oral questions from committee members to a minister and/or the minister’s […]

  • Presiding Officers

    Presiding Officers

    Australia Legal DefinitionsThe President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives are the Presiding Officers. Each presides over the proceedings of his or her respective House. Administratively, each is responsible for his or her respective chamber department and together […]

  • Motions

    Motions

    Australia Legal DefinitionsProposals for the Senate to agree to something, which must be expressed in a way that conforms with the standing orders.

  • Estimates Committees

    Estimates Committees

    Australia Legal DefinitionsThe term commonly used to describe the consideration of the annual and additional estimates of expenditure of government departments and agencies.

  • Disallowance Notice

    Disallowance Notice

    Australia Legal DefinitionsA procedure by which a senator notifies the Senate that he/she seeks to disallow certain delegated legislation.

  • Committee Of The Whole Amendments

    Committee Of The Whole Amendments

    Australia Legal DefinitionsAmendments proposed to the text of bills dealt with by a committee consisting of all the members of the Senate formed to consider a bill in detail

  • Clerks At The Table

    Clerks At The Table

    Australia Legal DefinitionsClerks, including the Clerk (the head of the department), the Deputy Clerk and other senior officers of the department, who sit in the chamber and provide procedural advice while taking the minutes of Senate proceedings.

  • Third Reading Print

    Third Reading Print

    Australia Legal DefinitionsA bill which is amended by the House in which it originates is reprinted to incorporate the amendments before it is transmitted to the other House. The bill is transmitted in the form in which it is ‘read a third time’ in the originating House and is known as […]