Test Your Knowledge - Parliamentary Procedure Quiz


Answer True or False to each of the following questions 

1. _______ When a member wishes to raise a matter in the House, he or she must be recognised by the Speaker.    

2. _______ Our Legislature is unicameral.    

3. _______ There are 47 Members in our Legislature.   

4. _______ The Governor has sole discretion on the appointment of all Senators.   

5. _______ The Senate meets on Fridays.   

6. _______ Reports, Statements from government departments, authorities and a wide variety of other papers
                      are 
presented to the House by being laid upon the table.  

7. _______ The body of a Bill consists of clauses which are divided into subsections (1), (2), (3) etc. 

8. _______  Bermuda’s first Parliament convened in St. George’s, our first capital on 1st August, 1620.   

9. _______  Statutory Instruments are sometimes referred to as primary legislation.   

10. _______The Government has the right to determine the order on which the Heads of Expenditure are to be
                       considered during the Budget Debate.
  

11. _______ Parliament consist of the House of Assembly, the Senate and the Cabinet.   

12. _______ The Premier is the presiding officer in the House of Assembly.  

13. _______ The Senate is the Upper House in the Legislature.   

14. _______ Bills may be returned to the House from the Senate.  

15. _______ The Clerk to the Legislature determines meeting dates for the House of Assembly.  

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