Preface
Editors’ Foreword
Web Editor’s Foreword
1 Introduction: the chair’s role
2 Notice of meetings, quorum and agenda
3 About motions
4 Debating a motion
5 Amending a motion
6 Five types of amendment
7 Closing debate
8 Voting and elections
9 Committees
10 Reports, delegations and balance sheet
11 Conferences and public meetings
12 Keeping order
13 Points of order, the right of reply and suspension of standing order
14 Minutes and correspondence
Epilogue
A Branch procedure at a glance
B Flow charts of procedure
C Model standing orders
D Hints for speakers