Chairperson, I move that the Order printed in the name of the Chief Whip of the Majority Party be adopted.
That the House -
1) suspends Rule 253(1)(b), which provides that the debate on the Second Reading of a Bill that has not been referred to a committee may not commence before at least three working days have elapsed since the Bill was introduced, for the purposes of conducting the Second Reading debate on the National Youth Development Agency Bill [B 82 - 2008] (National Assembly - proposed sec 75) today;
2) subject to the concurrence of the National Council of Provinces, suspends Joint Rule 154(2), which provides that the Joint Tagging Mechanism may not classify a Bill before the expiry of the period stated in the Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports, in respect of the Bill (see Announcements, Tablings and Committee Reports, 20 November 2008, p 2321); and
3) subject to the concurrence of the National Council of Provinces, for the purposes of conducting the Second Reading debate today on the above-mentioned Bill, suspends Joint Rule 220(2), which requires that a translation of a Bill's official text must be received by Parliament at least three days before the formal consideration of the Bill by the House in which it was introduced.
Agreed to.