Election of the President of the Overseas Aid & Development Commission

(N.B. Rule 16(4) of The Rules of Procedure of the States of Deliberation provide:-

(4) On a proposition to elect a President of a Committee the Presiding Officer shall:

(a) first invite Members to propose eligible candidates. Candidates must be proposed and seconded. Nobody shall speak about a candidate at that stage;

(b) invite, in respect of each candidate in turn (or the candidate if there is only one), first the proposer to speak for not more than five minutes and then the candidate to speak for not more than ten minutes and thereafter, if there are two or more candidates, allow Members to question the candidates;

Provided that:

i. the question shall relate to areas of policy included in the mandate of the Committee;

ii. no Member may ask more than one question, save that if before the expiration of the period prescribed in sub-paragraph vi there are no further questions, Members who have already asked a question may be permitted to ask further questions;

iii. the questioner may not speak for more than 30 seconds;

iv. each candidate shall be entitled to respond to each question, but no response shall exceed 1 minute;

v. candidates shall answer the first question in the order in which they are nominated and thereafter the order of answering the questions shall, after each question has been answered by the candidates, be rotated by moving the name of the candidate at the top of the list to the bottom of that list;

vi. the session shall conclude at the expiration of the period calculated by multiplying 15 minutes by the number of candidates; and

vii. no Member shall be entitled to speak other than in accordance with the provisions of this sub-paragraph.)

(N.B. Pursuant to the Mandate of the Development & Planning Authority, a President of the Authority shall not be the President or a member of the Policy & Resources Committee or the President or a member of the Committee for the Environment & Infrastructure.)