COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY REPORTING PROGRESS (Suspension of Standing Orders)

Parliament of Singapore · 19 March 1979 · 4th Parliament

Official Report, 19 March 1979, Vol 38, Issue 11 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

E. W. Barker

Mr Barker: Sir, as we are well ahead of time, 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 tomorrow.

The Chairman: I give my consent. Does the Minister have the general assent of hon. Members to move the motion indicated by him?

Hon. Members indicated assent.

Resolved,

"That, notwithstanding the Standing Orders, progress be reported now and leave be asked to sit again tomorrow." - [Mr E.W. Barker].

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

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

Mr Speaker: So be it.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 19 March 1979. Republished on SGParliament.