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getting amendments prepared, printed, and distributed.
There is a second protection here. Under
ordinary parliamentary rules, when a matter comes before
the Convention, it is a main question unless divided.
Ordinarily, all parts of the main question can be consider
seriatim so you will have an opportunity to offer an
amendment to a part. Then at the end the whole question
will be open again for amendment. I think the best example
is suppose the Legislative Committee had suggested a
whole Legislative Article. Its recommendations, its report
would be the main question. Therefore, amendments would
be proper after each part in turn seriatim and at the end
after all was done an amendment that was germane previously
would still be germane with respect to the whole
question. You have that additional protection.
We have an amendment to Rule 47, again a
technical parliamentary matter, to make it clear that when
a question is divided, the same seriatim procedure shall
still apply. Under ordinary parliamentary law, once a
main question is divided, then both, take a question
divided in two parts, both parts are equally a main |
