COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY REPORTING PROGRESS (Suspension of Standing Orders)

Parliament of Singapore · 16 March 1979 · 4th Parliament

Official Report, 16 March 1979, Vol 38, Issue 10 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Ong Pang Boon

7.08 p.m.

Mr Ong Pang Boon: Sir, may I seek your consent and the general assent of Members present to move that progress be reported now and leave be asked to sit again on Monday?

The Chairman: I give my consent. Is it the pleasure of hon. Members that the motion be moved as proposed?

Hon. Members indicated assent

Resolved,

"That notwithstanding the Standing Orders, progress be reported now and leave be asked to sit again on Monday, 19th March, 1979." - [Mr Ong Pang Boon].

Thereupon Mr Deputy Speaker left the Chair of the Committee and took the Chair of the House.

Mr Ong Pang Boon: Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to report that the Committee of Supply has made further progress on the Main and Development Estimates of Expenditure for the financial year 1st April, 1979 to 31st March, 1980 and ask leave to sit again on Monday.

Mr Deputy Speaker: So be it.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 16 March 1979. Republished on SGParliament.