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unusual facts about parliamentary procedure



Australian Flag Society

In 2008 the AFS lobbied members of the Tasmanian parliament for a public inquiry to be held in response to a motion proposed by Denison Labor MHA Lisa Singh to have the Australian Aboriginal Flag stand in Parliament House, Hobart.

Citizen's arrest

Under the Standing Orders of the House of Commons of the United Kingdom, the Serjeant at Arms has the power to take into custody anyone who is in a Members-only area of the House, or who misconducts themselves, or who fails to leave when the House sits in private.

Dhirubhai Shah

He was also given the Gujarat Gaurav Award in 1999 in the field of parliamentary procedure by the International Association of Educators for World Peace, a United Nations agency.

Habeas Corpus Suspension Act 1863

First James Walter Wall of New Jersey spoke until midnight, when Willard Saulsbury, Sr., of Delaware gave Republicans an opportunity to surrender by moving to adjourn.

Raise a question of privilege

In parliamentary procedure, a motion to raise a question of privilege is a privileged motion that permits a request related to the rights and privileges of the assembly or any of its members to be brought up.


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Luciano Varela

He was also the author of the draft law of the Court of Jurado popular, which, after the coming parliamentary procedure, to be published in the Boletín Oficial del Estado with the official name ofLaw 5 / 1995 22 May, the Court of the Jury.