division_name: New Provision for Earlier Sittings on Tuesdays
motion: <p class="italic" pid=".823.1/1" pwmotiontext="yes">Motion made, and Question put,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".823.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That, with effect from 1st January 2003 until the end of the Parliament, the Standing Orders and practice of the House shall have effect subject to the following modifications:</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".823.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">(1) Subject to paragraph (3) of this Order and to paragraph (14)(a) of <phrase class="standing-order" code="1B" pwmotiontext="yes" title="Election of Speaker by secret ballot">Standing Order No. 1B (Election of Speaker by secret ballot)</phrase>, the House shall meet on Tuesdays at half-past Eleven o'clock and&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".823.1/4" pwmotiontext="yes">(a) the moment of interruption shall be at Seven o'clock; and</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".823.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">(b) in their application to such sittings, reference to a specified time in the Standing Orders shall be interpreted as reference to a time three hours earlier, except that reference to Twelve o'clock in <phrase class="standing-order" code="24" pwmotiontext="yes" title="Adjournment on a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration">Standing Order No. 24 (Adjournment on a specific and important matter that should have urgent consideration)</phrase> shall be read as reference to half-past Ten o'clock, and that references to One o'clock, a quarter past One o'clock and half-past Three o'clock in <phrase class="standing-order" code="88" pwmotiontext="yes" title="Meetings of standing committees">Standing Order No. 88 (Meetings of standing committees)</phrase>shall be read as references to twenty-five minutes past Eleven o'clock, twenty minutes to Twelve o'clock and Two o'clock respectively.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".823.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">(2) On Tuesdays the sitting in Westminster Hall shall begin at half-past Nine o'clock, shall be suspended from half-past Eleven o'clock until Two o'clock and may then continue for up to a further two and a half hours (and in calculating that period no account shall be taken of any period during which the sitting may be suspended owing to a division being called in the House or a Committee of the whole House).</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid=".823.1/7" pwmotiontext="yes">(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) of this Order shall not apply to a Tuesday sitting which immediately follows a periodic adjournment of more than two days or is the first day of a session, and in the former case the sitting in Westminster Hall shall begin at half-past Nine o'clock and conclude at Two o'clock<i>.&#8212;[Mr. Woolas.]</i></p>
  
  <p pid=".823.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes"><i>The House divided:</i> Ayes 274, Noes 267.</p>