Constitution Section 96 — The Speaker or the Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration

Part V — THE UNION — Officers of Parliament

Constitutional

Summary

When the House of the People is discussing a resolution to remove the Speaker from office, the Speaker cannot chair the meeting, even if present. The same rule applies to the Deputy Speaker when a resolution to remove them is being discussed. In such cases, the rules for when the Speaker or Deputy Speaker is absent will apply. However, the Speaker is allowed to speak and take part in the debate on their own removal, and they can vote on the resolution or any related matter, but only as the first voter—they do not get a casting vote if the votes are tied.

Official Text

(1) At any sitting of the House of the People, while any resolution for the removal of the Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Speaker, or while any resolution for the removal of the Deputy Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Deputy Speaker, shall not, though he is present, preside, and the provisions of clause (2) of article 95 shall apply in relation to every such sitting as they apply in relation to a sitting from which the Speaker, or, as the case may be, the Deputy Speaker, is absent.

(2) The Speaker shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of, the House of the People while any resolution for his removal from office is under consideration in the House and shall, notwithstanding anything in article 100, be entitled to vote only in the first instance on such resolution or on any other matter during such proceedings but not in the case of an equality of votes.