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17    (1) Questions relating to matters of Community may be put to the Council by any Members.

 

(2) Questions to the Council shall be referred to the Council at least three weeks before the sitting on whose Order Paper they are to appear.

 

(3) A question shall be genuinely of an interrogative character and its purpose shall be limited to seeking information or pressing for action.

 

(4) A question shall not be made the pretext for a debate.

 

(5) Any Member may ask a supplementary question, but a supplementary question shall not introduce a matter not related to the original question.

 

(6) Each Member may ask one priority question each month.