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SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
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COMMITTEE
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NOTICE __OFMOTIONTOANENDTHE ?
Date
JULY
26,1973
RULES OF PROCEDURE
At the May 7,
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meeting of Senate, the Senate Committee
on Agenda and Rules were instructed to recommend to the October 1973
meeting of Senate rules and procedures for the conduct of the business
of Senate; in preparing their recommendation the Committee were in-
structed to bear in mind Senate's current and precedent procedural
experience.
The Committee have in mind to incorporate subsequent rules,
practices, and precedents with the basic Rules of Procedure of Senate
as defined on April 4, 1966, and to present the whole for the approval
of Senate as the working rules of Senate.
This will, in effect, amount to an alteration of or addition
to the Rules of Procedure of Senate as defined in April 1966. Under
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the Rules of April, 1966, an alteration of the Rules of Procedure shall
require an affirmative vote by two-thirds ofthemembershi
p of Senate
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.ziy. ..ccdng r.o Fcbirt's 'uios of Ordar the usual praic. in
amending the rules requires either two-thirds vote at one session, or
a majority vote In two successive sessions; the current requirement of
approval by two-thirds of the whole membership is therefore unusually
stringent, and was, presumably, designed to prevent hasty or ill-
considered alteration of the Rules of Procedure. Recent experience
shows that amendment to the Rules of Senate would be very difficult;
in the course of the last 28 meetings of Senate, on 9 occasions an
amendment of the Rules would have been impossible because fewer than
two-thirds of the membership of Sene were present, at 3 meetings a
unanimous vote would have been required, and at 5 meetings contrary
votes by three members or less would have defeated a motion to amend
the Rules.
The Committee are of the opinion that the proposed amendment
• would create a more practical. role and' that Senate would be protected
from capricious and ill-considered amendment by the necessary advance
notice of any proposal to change the Rules of Procedure.
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SiMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
MEMORANDUM
SENATE COMMITTEE ON AGENDA AND RULES
SENATE
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From
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Subjed___NOTICE
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OF NOTION
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Date_____________________________________________________
JULY 26, 1973
In accordance with Rule I of Senate Rules of Procedure,
April 4, 1966, notice is hereby given of the following motions to
be presented at the September 10, 1973 meeting of Senate:
MOTION 1: "That Rule I of Rules of Procedure of Senate,
Status of these Rules of Procedure, sentence
2,
be amended to read, 'Alterations of these
Rules of Procedure shall require written
notice at a regular meeting of Senate prior
to the meeting at which a vote on the proposed
alteration is taken, which vote shall require
an affirmative vote by Iwo—thirds of the
voting members present to carry."
MOTION
2:
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"That the rules of Senate be suspended in order
to permit a postal vote on the motion to amend
the Rules of - Procedure"
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