Issue - meetings

To consider an amendment to the Constitution to include a provision relating to recorded votes at committee and sub-committee meetings.

The Committee considered an amendment to the Constitution to include a provision relating to recorded votes at committee and sub-committee meetings.

Paragraph 31 of the Committee Procedure Rules dealt with voting arrangements at committee and sub-committee meetings and currently read as follows:

“31      Voting

31.1    Voting at Committee and Sub-Committee meetings will be by a show of hands.

31.3    A recorded vote will not be taken if the vote has already begun to be taken by a show of hands.”

In order to complete these provisions, it was necessary to include a paragraph on the requirements for taking recorded votes.

RESOLVED

That Council be recommended to approve the adoption of the following provision and its incorporation into the Council’s Committee Procedure Rules:

“At committees, sub-committees or special committees, when a Member stands in his/her place and asks for a recorded vote to be taken, and one other Member stands in his/her place to support the request, the vote will be recorded to show whether each Member present voted for or against the motion or abstained.”