Report Of The Select Standing Committee On Public Accounts

This reference book is primarily a procedural work which examines the many forms, customs, and practices which have been developed and established for the House of Commons since Confederation in 1867. It provides a distinctive Canadian perspective in describing procedure in the House up to the end of the first session of the 36th Parliament in Sept. 1999. The material is presented with full commentary on the historical circumstances which have shaped the current approach to parliamentary business. Key Speaker's rulings and statements are also documented and the considerable body of practice, interpretation, and precedents unique to the Canadian House of Commons is amply illustrated. Chapters of the book cover the following: parliamentary institutions; parliaments and ministries; privileges and immunities; the House and its Members; parliamentary procedure; the physical & administrative setting; the Speaker & other presiding officers; the parliamentary cycle; sittings of the House; the daily program; oral & written questions; the process of debate; rules of order & decorum; the curtailment of debate; special debates; the legislative process; delegated legislation; financial procedures; committees of the whole House; committees; private Members' business; public petitions; private bills practice; and the parliamentary record. Includes index.

During the first and second sessions of the Thirty-eighth parliament, the Public Accounts Committee was instructed to conduct a search for and unanimously recommend to the British Columbia Legislative Assembly a person to be the next Auditor General for the province, pursuant to section 2 of the Auditor General Act. The first phase of the search process was reported on in the Public Accounts Committee's annual report tabled in the House on March 15, 2007 (provided as a summary in Appendix A). This report focuses on the second phase of the recruitment process. It contains the sixth recommendation made by an all-party parliamentary committee to the Legislative Assembly to appoint an Auditor General of British Columbia.--Document.