COMMITTEE OF SUPPLY REPORTING PROGRESS (Suspension of Standing Orders)

Parliament of Singapore · 22 March 1979 · 4th Parliament

Official Report, 22 March 1979, Vol 38, Issue 14 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

Ahmad Mattar

7.45 p.m.

Dr Ahmad Mattar: 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 tomorrow?

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 tomorrow." - [Dr Ahmad Mattar].

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

Dr Ahmad Mattar: Mr Deputy Speaker, 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 Deputy Speaker: So be it.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 22 March 1979. Republished on SGParliament.