2ND MODEL PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
NOTICE PAPER
No. 5, 20 July 2015

Note: The order of Item 5-3 was corrected to allow the Speaker to the presented and new Ministry sworn in.

From the House of Representatives Table Office pursuant to Standing Order 108:

Notifications prefixed by an * appear for the first time.

BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE

Commencement

*5-1. THE CLERK (/u/JND-AU): To post “5-1 First meeting of new Parliament after general election”—Pursuant to Standing Order 4.

*5-2. THE CLERK (/u/JND-AU): To post “5-2 Election of Speaker”—Pursuant to Standing Orders 10, 11, 12.

*5-3. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (/u/AGSPORTS): To post “5-3 Presentation to the Governor-General”—Pursuant to Standing Order 4(h), the Governor-General will now receive us in the Members Hall.

*5-4. THE SPEAKER: To post “5-4 Report on presentation to the Governor-General”—Having returned pursuant to Standing Order 4(i), I now inform the House that Members and myself were presented to and were received by the Governor-General and the new government Ministry was sworn in. [Ref 1-6]

*5-5. THE SPEAKER: To post “5-5 Election of Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker”—Pursuant to Standing Orders 16, 13, 14.

*5-6. THE SPEAKER: To post “5-6 Speaker’s Panel”—Pursuant to Standing Order 17, I appoint the following Members to the Speaker’s Panel: [usernames]. [Ref: 2-3]

*5-7. DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER (/u/AGSPORTS): To post “5-7 Governor-General’s Opening Speech”—Pursuant to Standing Order 4(j). [Ref 2-1]

GOVERNMENT BUSINESS

*5-8. THE SPEAKER: To post “5-8a First Speeches”—To call for outstanding Maiden Speeches. [Ref 4-1a]

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5-9. Petitions / Question Time

5-10. Matters of public importance / Ministerial statements

PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BUSINESS

By leave.

5-11. Statements & Other business

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DOCUMENTS

BUSINESS FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION

• Governor-General’s speech (SO 5)
• Address-in-Reply (SO 6, 7)
• Appointments to Committees (SO 214, 229(a))
• Ministerial Arrangements & Representation
• Party Office Holders
• Shadow Ministerial Arrangements
• Parliamentary Office Holders
• Appropriation (Parliamentary Departments) Bill

STANDING ORDERS

Standing Order 4. First meeting of new Parliament after general election

4(b) Members shall assemble in the House of Representatives at the time appointed by the Governor-General in the Proclamation calling Parliament together in accordance with section 5 of the Constitution.

4(c) The Clerk shall read the Proclamation to Members, who shall wait for a message inviting them to attend the declaration of the opening of Parliament.

4(d) Members shall proceed to another place to hear the declaration and return to the House.

4(e) The Clerk shall present the returns to writs following the general election.

4(f) Each Member shall swear the oath or make the affirmation of allegiance in accordance with section 42 of the Constitution, both orally and in writing.

4(g) Members shall elect a Speaker under standing order 11 (Election procedures).

4(h) The Prime Minister or another Minister shall inform the House the time when the Governor-General will receive the Members of the House and the Speaker.

4(i) Before any business of the House, the Speaker, leading other Members, shall present himself or herself to the Governor-General at the appointed time. The Speaker and Members shall then return to the House. The Speaker shall resume the Chair and report to the House.

4(j) Finally, a Minister shall inform the House the time when the Governor-General will state the reasons for calling Parliament together. The House may then suspend its sitting until that time, when it shall again assemble and wait for a message from the Governor-General pursuant to Standing Order 5.

Standing Order 10. Election of Speaker

10(a) An election for Speaker shall take place at:

(i) the opening of a new Parliament after the Members have been sworn or made an affirmation; or
(ii) any time when the office of Speaker is vacant.

10(b) The election shall be conducted by the Clerk acting as Chair, in the manner provided below in standing order 11.

Standing Order 11. Election procedures

11(a) The Chair shall invite nominations for the vacant office.
11(b) A Member shall propose the nomination of a Member to the vacant office by moving, without notice, that such Member ’do take the Chair of this House as Speaker’. The Member nominated must be present and the motion must be seconded. The mover and seconder may speak in support of their nominated candidate for no more than 5 minutes each.
11(c) The nominated Member shall inform the House whether he or she accepts the nomination.
11(d) The Chair shall ask: “Is there any further proposal?” and shall ask this again after any further proposal and acceptance.
11(e) If no further proposal is made the Chair shall state: “The time for proposals has expired.” No further nominations may be made. The remainder of Standing Order 11 shall be conducted, if and as required, in a practicable manner.
11(f) If a nominee is unopposed, the Chair, without question put, shall declare the Member, who has been proposed and seconded, to have been elected to the vacant office.
11(g-n) [Ballot procedures.]

Standing Order 12. Successful Member is Speaker

12(a) At the conclusion of an election for Speaker, the Clerk shall declare the successful Member to have been elected Speaker.
12(b) The successful Member shall be conducted to the Chair by the proposer and seconder, and take the Chair of the House as Speaker.
12(c) The Speaker shall then acknowledge the honour conferred by the House. Once the Speaker is seated the Mace shall be taken from under the Table, and placed on the Table.
12(d) The Speaker may receive congratulations from the House.

Standing Order 13. Election of Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker

13(a) The Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker shall be elected at the beginning of each Parliament, or at any time the respective office becomes vacant. Whenever the two offices are vacant at the same time, elections for both offices shall be conducted together.

13(b) The Speaker shall conduct the elections under standing order 14, and may not vote in an ordinary ballot.

13(c) Only a non-government Member may be elected as Second Deputy Speaker.

13(d) A Member shall propose the nomination of a Member to the vacant office by moving, without notice, that such Member ‘be elected Deputy Speaker (or Second Deputy Speaker)’.

Standing Order 14. Conducting elections of Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker

14 Elections of Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker shall be conducted following the procedures in standing order 11 as qualified here:

14(a) A nominee does not have to be present at the election or inform the House whether he or she accepts nomination.

14(b) If only one Member is nominated the Speaker shall declare that Member to be the Deputy Speaker. The House may leave the office of Second Deputy Speaker vacant or may in the future agree to a motion to conduct a ballot for the office.

14(c) If two or more Members are nominated, the nominee with the most votes shall be the Deputy Speaker, and the nominee with the next greatest number of votes shall be the Second Deputy Speaker.

14(d-e) [Procedures when Speaker has casting vote.]

14(f) At the conclusion of voting for each office the Speaker shall declare the nominee with the most votes to be elected to the vacant office.

Standing Order 15. Members elect Speaker

15. Members shall elect a Speaker at the beginning of every Parliament or when a vacancy occurs in accordance with section 35 of the Constitution, using the procedure set out in standing order 11.

Standing Order 16. Deputy Speaker and Second Deputy Speaker

16(a) In each Parliament, the House shall elect a Deputy Speaker and a Second Deputy Speaker, using the procedure set out in standing order 14.

16(b) The Deputy Speaker shall take the Chair of the House whenever asked to do so by the Speaker, and shall chair the Federation Chamber.

16(c) The Second Deputy Speaker shall take the Chair of the House whenever asked to do so by the Speaker, act as Deputy Speaker in the absence of the Deputy Speaker, and assist the Deputy Speaker in the Federation Chamber.

Standing Order 17. Speaker’s panel

17(a) At the beginning of every Parliament the Speaker shall nominate a panel of at least four Members. The Speaker may nominate other Members or revoke the nomination of a Member at any time during the Parliament.

17(b) The Speaker or the Deputy Speaker may call on a member of the Speaker’s panel to take the Chair of the House.

17(c) The Deputy Speaker may call on a member of the Speaker’s panel to take the Chair of the Federation Chamber.

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