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STANDING ORDERS
FOR THE BGCM
1. The President shall maintain order and decide all
points of order.
2. The President shall decide priority of speeches,
according to the order in which a delegate catches
his/her eye.
3. The President shall call for the terms of a motion,
or an amendment, before any speech is delivered
thereon. Except in the case of an emergency
approved by the Executive Committee and the
General Council no motion or amendment can be
moved unless submitted in accordance with the
terms of Rule 6 of the Federation’s rules.
4. In the case of a disorder arising, the President shall
have the power to adjourn the meeting to a time
he/she shall fix, and his/her leaving the Chair shall
terminate the session.
5. Should there be equality of votes on any issue
where the vote is taken by show of hands the
President may, subject to the terms of Rule 7,
exercise a casting vote.
6. When a report is submitted by a committee, a
member of that committee shall have the right to
move its adoption.
7. The previous question, or the motion to pass to
next business, shall always have priority, and if
carried, the next business must be taken.
8. The mover only of an original motion shall have the
right to reply, but in his/her reply he/she must not
introduce new matter. Other delegates can only be
heard by permission of the meeting, and to clear up
misunderstandings with regard to essential parts of
their previous speeches.
9. If a delegate rises to a point of order, he/she must
specify the rule or practice which he/she thinks is
being violated. The delegate in possession of the
floor must sit down while the point of order is being
raised, and the objector must sit down while the
President is giving a ruling.
10. Discussion shall cease if the motion ‘that the
question be now put’ is carried by a two thirds
majority.
11. At an adjourned debate the mover of the
adjournment shall be first heard.
12. No amendment shall be proposed which would
be tantamount to a direct negative of the whole
proposal.
13. An amendment must be seconded in the same way
as motions, otherwise it must drop.
14. When an amendment has been moved and
seconded it must be stated from the Chair before
the debate is allowed to proceed.
15. There can be only one amendment before the
meeting at one time.
16. If the amendment is put and carried it then
becomes the substantive motion to which another
amendment can be moved before it is put and
carried as the substantive motion.
17. If the amendment is put and lost the original
motion is then open to the moving of another
amendment which, if carried becomes the
substantive motion.
18. No delegate can move two amendments of the
same motion.
19. No delegate shall be permitted to move an
amendment while a previously moved amendment
is under discussion
Standing Orders
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