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that no Member shall speak to a motion to adjourn the 
House or the Debate for more than ten minutes. 
Rule No. 14 of the House of Assembly of Nova Scotia 
provides that no Member shall address the House upon any 
subject before it for a longer period than an hour and a half 
at any one time, unless by special leave of the House. 
There is no limitation on the time occupied by speeches 
delivered in the Parliament of Newfoundland. 
There is no provision for a time limit to speeches in the 
Senate of the Commonwealth of Australia, except in the case 
of a motion for the adjournment to discuss a definite matter 
of urgency, in which case the mover and Minister first 
speaking to the question shall not speak for more than 
thirty minutes each, and other Senators and the mover in 
reply shall not exceed fifteen minutes each, while the whole 
of the discussion of the subject shall not exceed three hours 
‘Standing Orders of the Senate, No. 60). 
In the House of Representatives, the only limitation is 
that under Standing Orders 38 and 39 a Member moving the 
adjournment of the House to discuss a definite matter of 
urgent public importance cannot speak for more than thirty 
minutes, and no other Member for more than fifteen minutes. 
Standing Order No. 13 of the Legislative Council of New 
South Wales provides that on any motion for the adjourn- 
ment of the House for the purpose of discussing a definite 
matter of urgent public importance, the speeches of the 
mover and the Minister first speaking to the question shall 
not exceed thirty minutes each, and the speech of any 
other Member or of the mover in reply shall not exceed fifteen 
minutes each. Standing Order No. 264 provides that any 
standing rules or order of the House may be suspended 
on motion made in accordance with notice given and, in cases 
of necessity, may be suspended on motion made without 
notice. The question of necessity may be decided by the 
House upon motion without notice or debate, except a state- 
ment by the mover limited to ten minutes. 
Standing Order No. 49 of the Legislative Assembly provides 
that on motions for the adjournment of the House to discuss 
definite matters of urgent public importance, the mover and 
the Minister first speaking are limited to thirty minutes each, 
and any other Member speaking to the question to fifteen 
minutes each. Standing Order No. 161 provides that on 
a motion of dissent from Mr. Speaker’s ruling no Member 
shall, without concurrence, speak for more than ten minutes, 
and Mr. Speaker is entitled to put the question when the 
debate on such question shall have exceeded thirty minutes. 
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