ADJOURNMENT

Legislative Assembly of Singapore · 22 July 1955 · 1st Legislative Assembly

Official Report, 22 July 1955, Vol 1, Issue 7 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Mr Speaker: Moment of interruption. It is four o'clock now. Debate to be resumed, what day, Mr Chief Minister?

The Chief Minister: Ten o'clock tomorrow morning, Sir.

Mr Speaker: I am afraid that cannot be done. If the Chief Minister will now move that the sitting do adjourn, automatically the adjournment will be until Monday morning, the next sitting day.

The Chief Minister: With respect, Sir, may I point out that under the provisions of Standing Order 7 (2), I thought we could continue to-morrow? Would you permit me, Sir, to move the suspension of the Standing Orders in order to enable a sitting to be held tomorrow morning?

Mr Speaker: That cannot be done. Will you move the adjournment, please?

The Chief Minister: Mr Speaker, Sir, I move the adjournment till Monday morning at 10 a.m.

Question put, and agreed to.

Adjourned accordingly at 4.02 p.m. to the 25th of July, 1955.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 22 July 1955. Republished on SGParliament.