(Amendment negatived: nays 10; yeas 1 [See Minutes of Proceedings])
(Clause 7 as amended agreed to: yeas 6; nays 5)
(On clause 8)
We are on CPC-19.
The amendment seeks to increase the number of members of the council from 15 to 20, which would create additional spending. As House of Commons Procedure and Practice, third edition, states on page 772, “Since an amendment may not infringe upon the financial initiative of the Crown, it is inadmissible if it imposes a charge on the public treasury, or if it extends the objects or purposes or relaxes the conditions and qualifications specified in the royal recommendation.”
In the opinion of the chair, the amendment proposes new spending, which would require a royal recommendation. Therefore, I rule the amendment inadmissible.
Go ahead, Mrs. Stubbs, on a point of order.