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Committee Regulations

 
  Business Committee
   
1.

Title

 

There shall be a committee of the General Assembly entitled the Business Committee. (Rule 5:47)
   
2.

Membership

 

The membership of the committee shall be:

  1. a convener who shall not be the convener of any other Assembly committee during his term of office. He shall be appointed for three years and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the regulations of the Assembly, he shall be eligible for re-election;
  2. 'ex officio' members: the Clerks of the General Assembly, Procurator and Law Agent;
  3. three members of Assembly elected by the Assembly after nomination. No convener of any committee reporting directly to the Assembly shall be eligible for membership except ex officio members;
  4. in addition to the members appointed as above, the clerks of all presbyteries under the jurisdiction of the Assembly shall be 'ex officio' members during the sittings of Assembly.
   
3.

Duties

 

The committee shall arrange the order of business for all meetings of the General Assembly, all of which, in these regulations, are designated by the word Assembly unless the context otherwise requires.
   
4. The committee shall receive all papers proposed to be submitted to the Assembly (except appeals, petitions, and references, for which see Rule 5:78).
   
5. The committee shall decide whether papers sent to them are duly attested, drawn up in proper form, and competent, and shall transmit them to the Assembly without comment or with notes attached as it shall determine.
   
6. The committee shall not transmit papers containing proposals which seem to it incompetent, or which are in language it considers disrespectful.
   
7. The committee shall not bring before the General Assembly any proposed expenditure of General Assembly funds (except GMP Budget) without the assurance that the Trusts Corporation/Board of Investment and Finance has been advised of such a proposal and that they are in a position to guide the General Assembly should such guidance be requested.
   
8. The committee through its convener shall determine the date on which it is necessary that papers shall be received to enable the White Book to be edited and printed and issued on such date as to be in the hands of members at least ten days before the meetings of the Assembly.
   
9. Other business than that contained in the White Book or in Assembly Papers issued therewith shall be taken only when recommended by the committee and approved by the Assembly.
   
10. The committee shall submit to the Assembly a report of the papers which have been brought under its review and the manner in which these have been disposed of by it, and shall also indicate the order in which it proposes to have the various items of business in the papers taken up.
   
11. The consideration of the report shall be the first matter submitted to the Assembly after the rolls have been adjusted and the Moderator elected.
   
12. The committee shall meet from day to day during the sittings of the Assembly at the close of each sederunt and report at each evening sederunt the items of business it proposes to have taken up on the following day. The report shall be approved or modified as the Assembly may determine, and no business, except what is included in the report so approved, may be dealt with on the day to which it refers, unless otherwise provided in standing orders.
   
13. The committee shall recommend to the Assembly such fixed orders of the day as appear essential to assure the presence in the court of some person or persons not able to be in constant attendance.