SENATE SECRETARIAT

ORDERS OF THE DAY

 

for the meeting of the Senate to be held at 10.30 a.m. on Friday, the 6th February, 2015.

 

1.      Recitation from the Holy Quran.

 

QUESTIONS

 

2.      Questions entered in a separate list to be asked and answers given.

 

MOTION

(Under Rule 196)

 

3.      Discussion on the issue of recent petroleum crisis in the country and consideration of report of joint committees’ meeting on that issue.

 

PAPERS TO BE LAID BEFORE THE SENATE

 

4.      MR. MOHAMMAD ISHAQ DAR, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization, to lay before the Senate the report on 1st Biannual Monitoring on the Implementation of National Finance Commission (NFC) Award for the period July-December 2013, as required under clause (3B) of Article 160 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

 

BILLS TO BE INTRODUCED

 

5.      MR. MOHAMMAD ISHAQ DAR, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization, to introduce the Bill further to amend the Companies Ordinance, 1984 [The Companies (Amendment) Bill, 2015].

 

6.      MR. MOHAMMAD ISHAQ DAR, Minister for Finance, Revenue, Economic Affairs, Statistics and Privatization, to introduce the Bill to amend the Stock Exchanges (Corporatization, Demutualization and Integration) Act, 2012 [The Stock Exchanges (Corporatization, Demutualization and Integration) (Amendment) Bill, 2015].

 

ORDINANCE TO BE LAID

 

7.      MR. PERVAIZ RASHID, Minister for Law, Justice and Human Rights, to lay before the Senate the Gas Infrastructure Development Cess Ordinance, 2014 (Ordinance No.VI of 2014) as required by clause (2) of Article 89 of the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 

 

MOTION OF THANKS

 
8.      Further discussion on the following motion moved by Raja Muhammad Zafar-ul-Haq, Leader of the House, on 21st October, 2014:-

 

“This House expresses its deep gratitude to the President of Pakistan for his address to both the Houses assembled together on 2nd June, 2014.”.

 

AMENDMENT TO THE SENATE RULES

(Under Rule 277)

 

9.      MR. MUSHAHID HUSSAIN SYED to seek leave under sub-rule (4) of rule 277 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, to move the following amendment:-

 

“that in the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, in rule 270, for sub-rule (3), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

 

“(3)   The Members of the forum shall elect from amongst themselves a Member as Chairman of the forum within one month of the constitution or reconstitution of the forum or the occurrence of vacancy, as the case may be. The term of office of the Chairman shall be one year and he shall be eligible to be reelected.”.

 

(If leave is granted)

 

10.    MR. MUSHAHID HUSSAIN SYED to move that the proposed amendment in the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, regarding substitution of sub-rule (3) of rule 270, be taken into consideration.

 

11.    MR. MUSHAHID HUSSAIN SYED to move that the proposed amendment in the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in the Senate, 2012, regarding substitution of sub-rule (3) of rule 270, be adopted.

 

CALLING ATTENTION NOTICE

 

12.    SENATOR SYED MUZAFAR HUSSAIN SHAH  to draw attention of the Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination to a matter of sufficient public importance regarding failure of the Ministry to evolve a uniform purchase price of sugarcane in the provinces of Punjab and Sindh.

 

 

 

AMJED PERVEZ

Secretary

 

Islamabad, the

4th February, 2015.