The National Assembly would normally be required to take a decision on such a matter. However, the House was not scheduled to sit before the expiry of the deadline by which the committee was expected to report and no provision exists in the Rules to extend the term of the committee under these circumstances. I therefore, in terms of Assembly Rule 2, ruled that the deadline by which the committee must report be extended to 31 March. I further ruled that this decision is subject to ratification by the House. Rule 2 states that "the Speaker may give a ruling or frame a Rule in respect of any eventuality for which these Rules do not provide."