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46      (1) Debate upon any motion or amendment to a motion or upon any Bill, part of a Bill or amendment to a Bill, shall be relevant to the matter being debated.

 

(2) Where an amendment has been moved and if necessary seconded, debate must be confined to the amendment, but the Speaker may, in his or her discretion, direct that the debate on the amendment includes debate on the matter of the motion. Where the matter of the amendment is not conveniently severable from the matter of the motion or, where the Speaker so directs a Member who speaks to the amendment shall not be entitled, after the amendment has been disposed of, to speak to the motion, and any Member who has already spoken to the motion may in speaking to the amendment speak only to any new matter raised thereby.



(3) When an amendment to a motion or a Bill proposes to leave proposes to leave out words and insert or add other words, the debate upon the question to leave out words may include both the words to be left out and those proposed to be inserted or added.



(4) On an amendment proposing only to leave out words, the debate shall be confined to the omission, insertion or addition of the words respectively.



(5) Upon a motion other than a motion by way of amendment to a question proposed by the Speaker, a Member may second by rising in his or her place and signifying his or her acquiescence by bowing his or her head, without speaking, and such Member shall there by reserve to himself or herself the same rights of speech as he or she would have had if some other Member had seconded such motion