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Order ID:408

UK Parliament — House of Lords

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84

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2025 — 23rd October 84 Standing Orders not to be made or dispensed with without notice [28 April 1699]

No motion shall be granted for making any new Standing Order, or for dispensing with a Standing Order of the House, unless notice shall have been given in the order paper to consider the said motion: Provided that on an occasion of grave national emergency the House may, notwithstanding the provisions of SO 44, resolve without notice that it is essential for reasons of national security that a bill (or bills) should immediately be proceeded with and that the provisions of SO 44 should be dispensed with to enable the House to proceed that day with every stage of a bill (or bills) which it thinks necessary; and if the clerk shall have read SOs 44 and 84 at the Table and the motion for the said resolution shall have been then agreed to, any such bill may be passed through all its stages on that day.

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2025 — 23rd October 84 Standing Orders not to be made or dispensed with without notice [28 April 1699]

No motion shall be granted for making any new Standing Order, or for dispensing with a Standing Order of the House, unless notice shall have been given in the order paper to consider the said motion: Provided that on an occasion of grave national emergency the House may, notwithstanding the provisions of SO 44, resolve without notice that it is essential for reasons of national security that a bill (or bills) should immediately be proceeded with and that the provisions of SO 44 should be dispensed with to enable the House to proceed that day with every stage of a bill (or bills) which it thinks necessary; and if the clerk shall have read SOs 44 and 84 at the Table and the motion for the said resolution shall have been then agreed to, any such bill may be passed through all its stages on that day.