When do parliament reconvene

A Parliament has a constitutionally determined maximum lifespan of five years. Each Parliament is divided into one or more sessions, usually consisting of a number of separate sittings. A session begins with a Speech from the Throne and ends with the prorogation or dissolution of the Parliament.

There may be any number of sessions in a Parliament; the numbers have ranged from one to seven. There is no set length for a session. A sitting is a meeting of the House within a session.

Although usually a calendar day, a sitting may last for only a matter of minutes or may extend over several days. A suspension is a formal pause during the course of a single sitting.

The Speaker suspends the House and announces to the House when the suspension is over. A suspension may be of any duration. Suspensions may occur to allow the Speaker to confer with the table, to allow members to vacate the House during a fire alarm, when debate has collapsed and there is no motion before the House and no consent to move to another order of business, or for other reasons.

When the sitting is suspended, the Speaker leaves the chair but the mace remains on the table. An adjournment is the termination of a sitting of the House pursuant to standing or special order, or by motion. An adjournment covers the period between the end of one sitting and the beginning of the next. It can be of varying duration—a few hours, overnight, over a weekend, a week or longer.

Standing Order 24 provides for adjournments overnight and over weekends, while Standing Order 28 provides for periodic adjournments of a week or more. While prorogation and dissolution are prerogative acts of the Crown, the power to adjourn rests solely with the House. The Speaker may recall the House, when it stands adjourned during a session, to meet prior to the date that it is scheduled to reconvene.

The period between the ending of one session prorogation and the beginning of the next. Also used in reference to a long adjournment. The House of Commons calendar sets out a schedule of adjournments of a week or more and thereby provides for sittings, or sitting periods, throughout the year. It comes into effect at the beginning of a session; in other words, the government is not bound by the Standing Orders in considering plans for the timing and length of sessions.

The calendar works in conjunction with other Standing Orders providing for daily meeting and adjournment times, and setting out certain days when the House does not sit, most of the days in question being statutory holidays or days deemed to be non-sitting days. The calendar is tabled by the Speaker by September 30 each year. The opening of a Parliament follows a general election.

It is also the opening of the first session of that Parliament. Two procedures—the swearing-in of members and the election of the Speaker—distinguish it from the opening of subsequent sessions. Parliament is summoned by a proclamation issued by the Governor General on the advice of the Prime Minister following a general election. The announcement comes after repeated calls from Malaysia's King Al-Sultan Abdullah for parliament to reconvene to discuss steps that have been taken to deal with the health and economic crises caused by the COVID pandemic.

Parliament was suspended in January after the king declared a national emergency on Muhyiddin's advice, a move described by the premier's critics as an attempt to shore up his position amid a leadership challenge. Muhyiddin's office said the government had agreed to advise the king that parliament will reconvene for five days from July and on Aug. Muhyiddin has been hospitalised since last week after suffering a digestive tract infection. About the House - Home. Transparency and accountability.

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