EXEMPTED BUSINESS (Motion)

Legislative Assembly of Singapore · 4 October 1956 · 1st Legislative Assembly

Official Report, 4 October 1956, Vol 2, Issue 6 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Lim Yew Hock

[Mr Speaker in the Chair]

The Chief Minister (Mr Lim Yew Hock): Mr Speaker, Sir, I understand it is the wish of hon. Members that the business at today's sitting should be completed today. I therefore ask your assent and the consent of this House to enable me to move a motion to suspend Standing Orders.

Mr Speaker: Have I the assent of hon. Members?

Hon. Members: Aye.

The Chief Minister: Thank you, Mr Speaker, Sir. May I now move,

That the proceedings on the business set down for this day be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order 7.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That the proceedings on the business set down for this day be exempted from the provisions of Standing Order 7.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 4 October 1956. Republished on SGParliament.