Contents

Front matter

• Preface

• Editors’ Foreword

• Web Editor’s Foreword

Chapters

• 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

Appendices

• Epilogue

• A Branch procedure at a glance

• B Flow charts of procedure

• C Model standing orders

• D Hints for speakers