A hoist motion is used in Canadian legislative bodies to cause a bill not to be read now, but six months hence, or any number of months hence.
Parliamentary procedure
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Major concepts |
- Deliberative assembly
- Motions
- Main motion
- Quorum
- Session
- Chair
- Committee
- Committee of the whole
- Dilatory motions and tactics
- Minutes
- Second
- History of parliamentary procedure
- Principles of parliamentary procedure
- Voting methods in deliberative assemblies
- Floor
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Subsidiary motions |
- Postpone indefinitely
- Amend
- Commit
- Postpone to a certain time
- Limit or extend limits of debate
- Previous question
- Lay upon the table
- Place upon the table
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Privileged motions |
- Call for the orders of the day
- Raise a question of privilege
- Recess
- Adjourn
- Fix the time to which to adjourn
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Incidental motions |
- Point of order
- Appeal
- Suspend the rules
- Objection to the consideration of a question
- Division of a question
- Consideration by paragraph or seriatim
- Division of the assembly
- Motions relating to methods of voting and the polls
- Motions relating to nominations
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Incidental motions
(Requests and inquiries) |
- Parliamentary inquiry
- Point of information
- Request for permission to withdraw or modify a motion
- Request to read papers
- Request to be excused from a duty
- Request for any other privilege
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Motions that bring a question
again before the assembly |
- Take from the table
- Rescind, repeal, annul or amend something previously adopted
- Discharge a committee
- Reconsider
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Legislative procedure |
- Call of the house
- Hoist
- Majority of the majority
- Motion to pass on
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Disciplinary procedures |
- Censure
- Declare the chair vacant
- Impeach
- Naming
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Parliamentary authorities |
- Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR)
- The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC or Sturgis)
- Demeter's Manual of Parliamentary Law and Procedure
- Riddick's Rules of Procedure
- Mason's Manual of Legislative Procedure
- Erskine May: Parliamentary Practice
- Bourinot's Rules of Order
- Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms
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