PERMISSION TO MEMBER TO BE ABSENT

[Mr Speaker in the Chair]

The following Member has, under the provisions of subsection (2) (g) of section 42 of the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958, obtained from the Speaker, permission to be or to remain absent from sittings of the Assembly:

Dr Toh Chin Chye (Rochore), Deputy Prime Minister - from 1st to 10th August, 1963.

Mr Speaker: Honourable Members will have received an amended notice of motion with regard to the "guillotine" motion* which the Deputy Prime Minister will be moving. Before I call upon the Deputy Prime Minister to move, I call upon him as Leader of the House - it is necessary for him to move the usual motion exempting item 1 on the Order Paper from the provisions of Standing Order No. 1.

• The "Guillotine" Motion, standing in the name of the Deputy Prime Minister on the Order Paper, reads as follows:

That the proceedings on the Motion in the name of the Prime Minister on the Malaysia Agreement be brought to a conclusion on Thursday, 1st August, 1963 at 8 p.m.