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Ordered,
That, at the sitting on Thursday 20th April—
- (1) the House shall meet at half-past Nine o'clock, and shall between that hour and half-past Twelve proceed with a motion for the adjournment of the House made by a Minister of the Crown;
- (2) the subject for debate on the said motion shall be 'matters to be considered before the forthcoming adjournment';
- (3) at Eleven o'clock the Speaker may interrupt the proceedings in order to permit questions to be asked which are in her opinion of an urgent character and relate either to matters of public importance or to the arrangement of business, statements to be made by Ministers, or personal explanations to be made by Members;
- (4) at half-past Twelve o'clock, the proceedings shall be interrupted and the motion for the adjournment shall lapse;
- (5) a further motion for the adjournment of the House shall thereafter be made by a Minister of the Crown, and, subject to the Order of 1st March, if the Question on the said motion has not previously been agreed to, at One o'clock the Speaker shall adjourn the House without Question put; and
- (6) there shall be no sitting in Westminster Hall.—[Mr. Mike Hall.]