ADJOURNMENT

7.31 p.m.

The Minister for Education (Mr Ong Pang Boon): Mr Speaker, Sir, may I seek your consent and the general assent of Members to move a motion for the suspension of Standing Orders, so that the House may adjourn earlier than 8.00 p.m.?

Mr Speaker: I give my consent. Is it the pleasure of hon. Members that the Minister be permitted to move the motion, and that the Question be proposed thereon?

Hon. Members: Aye.

Mr Ong Pang Boon: Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move,

That, notwithstanding Standing Orders, Parliament do now adjourn.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That, notwithstanding Standing Orders, Parliament do now adjourn.

Adjourned accordingly at Twenty-seven minutes to Eight o'clock p.m.