FOURTH SCHEDULE
FOURTH SCHEDULE
[See rule 36]
BALLOT PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE
RELATIVE PRECEDENCE OF PRIVATE BILLS AND RESOLUTIONS.
1. Not less than seven days before each day allotted for the disposal of Private business, the Secretary will cause to be placed in the Notice Office a Numbered List. This list will be kept open for two days and during these days and at hours when the office is open, any Member who wishes to give or has given notice of a resolution or has given notice of a Bill, as the case may be, have his name entered in the case of a ballot for resolution, against one number only, or in the case of a ballot for bills against one number for each Bill of which he has given notice upto the number of three.
2. The ballot will be held in the Committee Room before the Secretary and any Member who wishes to attend may do so.
3. Paper with numbers corresponding to those against which entries have been made on the Numbered List will be separately placed in a box.
4. A clerk will take out at hazard from the box one of the papers and the Secretary will call out from the list the corresponding name which will then be entered on a priority list. This procedure will be carried out till all the numbers or in the case of a ballot for resolutions, five have been drawn.
5. Priority on the list will entitled the Member to have set down, in the order of his priority for the day with reference to which the ballot is held any Bill or any resolution, as the case may be, of which he has given the notice required by the rule;
Provided that he shall then and there specify such Bill or Bills or such resolution.