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A motion to adjourn is a privileged motion, unless it is qualified in any way (such as "adjourn at 10 p.m."), the time for adjourning is already established, or unless adjournment would dissolve the assembly (in these cases, it is a main motion). [2] The privileged motion to adjourn is used to end the meeting immediately without debate.
The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure omits Fix the time to which to adjourn, instead providing that the motion to adjourn may be amended with regard to the time to which to adjourn. This book also omits Call for orders of the day, on the grounds that any member may raise a point of order if the scheduled order of business is not being ...
The half-hour adjournment is an opportunity for a backbench Member of Parliament to raise a subject of their choosing, of which advance notice has been given, with the appropriate government minister. [1] Normally, only the member raising the debate and the minister who is replying speak in the half-hour adjournment. [1]
Adjournment sine die (from Latin "without a day") is the conclusion of a meeting by a deliberative assembly, such as a legislature or organizational board, without setting a day to reconvene. [1] The assembly can reconvene, either in its present form or a reconstituted form, if preexisting laws and rules provide for this.
A question of privilege can only be interrupted by the motions to take a recess, adjourn, or fix the time to which to adjourn, or any incidental motions that must be disposed of at that time. [3] An example of a question of privilege is a motion to go into executive session. [2]
A break for lunch can be more in the nature of a recess or an adjournment depending on the time and the extent of dispersion of the members required for them to be served. [1] But at the resumption of business after a recess, there are never any "opening" proceedings such as reading of minutes; business picks up right where it left off. [ 1 ]
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After a motion is placed before the assembly, permission from the assembly is required to withdraw it or modify it. [11] Sometimes a "friendly amendment" is requested on a pending motion. If the motion is before the assembly, only the assembly (not the maker of the motion) could modify it. [12] However, it can be settled by unanimous consent. [3]