Article 63 Motions, resolutions and amendments (ILC Standing Orders)
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Document No. (ilolex): 27199469
Part II: Standing Orders concerning special subjects, Section H - Committees
of the Conference.
Adopted on 21 November 1919 at the First Session of the Conference. Revised
and consolidated at the 27th Session. The present text of this article
includes all amendments adopted up to the 97th Session (2008).
The ILO is committed to promoting gender equality. Amendments to this effect
were adopted at the 97th Session of the International Labour Conference
(Geneva, 2008).
ARTICLE 63
Motions, resolutions and amendments
1. No motion, resolution or amendment shall be discussed unless it has been
seconded.
2. (1) Motions as to procedure may be moved verbally and without previous
notice. They may be moved at any time except after the Chairperson has called
upon a speaker and before the speaker has finished speaking.
(2) Motions as to procedure include the following:
(a) a motion to refer the matter back;
(b) a motion to postpone consideration of the question;
(c) a motion to adjourn the sitting;
(d) a motion to adjourn the debate on a particular question;
(e) a motion that the committee proceed with the next item on the agenda for
the sitting;
(f) a motion to ask for the opinion of the Chairperson, the Secretariat or the
Legal Adviser of the Conference;
(g) a motion for the closure of the discussion.
3. All resolutions and amendments other than motions as to procedure must be
submitted in writing in one of the official languages or Spanish.
4. Resolutions and amendments must be handed in to the secretariat of the
committee before 5 p.m. to enable the resolution or amendment to be discussed
at a meeting to be held on the following morning, or before 11 a.m. to enable
the resolution or amendment to be discussed at the meeting to be held in the
afternoon of the same day.
5. The texts of resolutions and amendments shall be translated and distributed
before the discussion to all members of the committee present at the sitting.
6. Only amendments to amendments already submitted under the conditions
referred to above may be submitted during a sitting of a committee for
discussion at that sitting. Such amendments shall be submitted in writing in
one the official languages or in Spanish.
7. (1) Amendments shall be voted on before the resolution to which they refer.
(2) If there are several amendments to a motion or resolution the Chairperson
shall determine the order in which they shall be discussed and put to the
vote, subject to the following provisions:
(a) every motion, resolution or amendment shall be put to the vote;
(b) amendments may be voted on either individually or against other amendments
according as the Chairperson may decide, but if amendments are voted on
against other amendments, the motion or resolution shall be deemed to be
amended only after the amendment receiving the largest number of affirmative
votes has been voted on individually and adopted;
(c) if a motion or resolution is amended as the result of a vote, that motion
or resolution as amended shall be put to the meeting for a final vote.
8. (1) Any amendment may be withdrawn by the person who submitted it unless an
amendment to it is under discussion or has been adopted.
(2) Any amendment so withdrawn may be moved without previous notice by any
other person entitled to take part in the discussions of the committee.
9. Any member may at any time draw attention to the fact that the Standing
Orders are not being observed, and the Chairperson shall give an immediate
ruling on any question so raised.
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