(Exempted Business Motion)

[Mr Speaker in the Chair]

Mr Wong Kan Seng: Mr Speaker, Sir, may I seek your consent and the general assent of this House to move that the proceedings on a Ministerial Statement today be continued beyond 1.30 pm?

Mr Speaker: I give my consent. Is it the pleasure of hon. Members that the motion be moved by the Leader of the House?

Hon. Members indicated assent.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That, notwithstanding the Standing Orders, the proceedings on a Ministerial Statement today by the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Defence be continued beyond 1.30 pm.-[Mr Wong Kan Seng]