sec.10ASitting and transacting business in exceptional circumstances

### sec.10A Sitting and transacting business in exceptional circumstances In exceptional circumstances, a meeting of the Assembly or a Committee of the Whole House may be held, and business transacted, using any technology that enables reasonably continuous and contemporaneous communication between the Speaker or Deputy Speaker presiding and the members present other than members present by proxy, and between the members present other than members present by proxy. For the purposes of a meeting held and business transacted in exceptional circumstances, the provisions of this Act are to be applied— with necessary and appropriate modifications that may be prescribed in the standing rules and orders of the Assembly; or in the absence of the prescription mentioned in paragraph (a) , with modifications the Speaker determines to be necessary and appropriate in the circumstances. The standing rules and orders of the Assembly might provide that if, during a meeting conducted under this section, a member who is present by electronic means is voting as and for an absent member under section 20 , references to voting inside the bar or outside the bar are to be read as requiring the member to declare to the Speaker or Deputy Speaker presiding whether the member is voting for the absent member and in the member’s own right, or for the absent member only. s 10A ins 2020 No. 13 s 30 (sec.10A-ssec.1) In exceptional circumstances, a meeting of the Assembly or a Committee of the Whole House may be held, and business transacted, using any technology that enables reasonably continuous and contemporaneous communication between the Speaker or Deputy Speaker presiding and the members present other than members present by proxy, and between the members present other than members present by proxy. (sec.10A-ssec.2) For the purposes of a meeting held and business transacted in exceptional circumstances, the provisions of this Act are to be applied— with necessary and appropriate modifications that may be prescribed in the standing rules and orders of the Assembly; or in the absence of the prescription mentioned in paragraph (a) , with modifications the Speaker determines to be necessary and appropriate in the circumstances. The standing rules and orders of the Assembly might provide that if, during a meeting conducted under this section, a member who is present by electronic means is voting as and for an absent member under section 20 , references to voting inside the bar or outside the bar are to be read as requiring the member to declare to the Speaker or Deputy Speaker presiding whether the member is voting for the absent member and in the member’s own right, or for the absent member only. - (a) with necessary and appropriate modifications that may be prescribed in the standing rules and orders of the Assembly; or - (b) in the absence of the prescription mentioned in paragraph (a) , with modifications the Speaker determines to be necessary and appropriate in the circumstances.