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and yields to all Privileged, Incidental and Subsidiary Questions [§§ 7, 8, 9].
7. Subsidiary or Secondary Motions are such as are applied to other motions, for the purpose of most appropriately disposing of them.[1] They take precedence of a Principal Question, and must be decided before the Principal Question can be acted upon. They yield to Privileged and Incidental Questions, [§§ 8, 9,] and are as follows (being arranged in their order of precedence among themselves):
| Lie on the Table | See § 19 |
| The Previous Question | See„ § 20 |
| Postpone to a Certain Day | See„ § 21 |
| Commit | See„ § 22 |
| Amend | See„ § 23 |
| Postpone Indefinitely | See„ § 24 |
Any of these motions (except to Amend) can be made when one of a lower order is pending, but none can supersede one of a higher order. They cannot be applied[2] to
- ↑ Take, for example, amotion that an appeal lie on the table: to lie on the table is a subsidiary motion enabling the assembly to properly dispose of the appeal; while the appeal is an incidental question, arising out of a decision of the Chair, to which some members objected.
- ↑ See page 18 for explanation of some of these technical terms.
