Chapter Seven - Standing Orders

A member may vote on a motion even though he has not voted on any amendment to it.

No member can, by voice or otherwise, give a vote outside the barrier.

The vote shall be taken by the following method:

1. By the voices . The moderator shall take the vote first by the voices.
   1. He shall put the question in this form:
      " The question is: Shall this motion (or amendment) pass? All who are of that opinion say 'aye'" .
   2. The "ayes" shall then respond.
   3. The moderator shall further say:
      "All who are of the contrary opinion say 'no' ".
   4. The "noes" shall then respond.
   5. The moderator shall then say, as the case may appear to him:
      " I think the 'ayes' (or the 'noes') have it."
   6. If his opinion is acquiesced in by the silence of the Assembly, he shall say:
      " The 'ayes' (or the 'noes') have it ", and the motion or amendment is passed or lost accordingly.
   7. Should there be no dissenting voice a unanimous vote may be recorded.
2. By show of hands . If the moderator's opinion is challenged by one or more members who have voted "no" saying " Show of hands! ", the vote shall be further taken by a show of hands but the numbers shall not be recorded.
3. By recorded count or division. If the moderator's opinion is further challenged by:
   1. a member moving that the vote be taken by recorded count; or
   2. five members requesting a division,

the vote shall be taken by recorded count or by division as the case may be.

A motion that the vote be taken by recorded count, after being seconded, shall be put without debate and decided by a show of hands "for" or "against". Should such a motion be carried, it precludes the taking of the vote by a division. The result of a vote by recorded count as reported to the moderator in writing and declared by him to the Assembly shall be final. The numbers shall be recorded in the minutes.

When a motion to take the vote by recorded count has not been moved or has been lost, a division may be called for by five members of the Assembly. Any five members of the Assembly may further demand that the names of those voting be recorded. Numbers are recorded in any case.

When the vote is about to be taken by division, the bell shall be rung and after a lapse of two minutes the doors shall be locked and no one shall be allowed to enter or leave the Assembly until the vote is taken. Members of the Ballot Committee shall act as tellers on each side. Those "for" the motion or amendment shall go to the right of the chair and those "against" to the left.

The result of the division, as reported in writing to the moderator and declared by him to the Assembly, shall be final.

In the case of an equality of votes the moderator shall have a casting vote, but he should vote so as to leave the matter open for further consideration. He has no deliberative vote.

No question which has been decided at one sitting of the Assembly can be reconsidered at a subsequent sitting.