(A) For Councillors
(1) Members will be informed of the date of their Group meeting for Council by their Group Researcher.
(2) The Chairman has agreed that the Council will adjourn for lunch at their discretion.
(3) (a) Persons making a declaration of interest should have regard to the Code of Conduct and the Procedure Rules for Meetings of the Full Council. Those declaring must indicate whether their interest is a disclosable pecuniary interest or a private interest and the reasons for the declaration.
(b) Any member or officer who declares a disclosable pecuniary interest in an item must withdraw from the meeting during discussion and voting upon it, unless a dispensation has been granted. Members or officers requiring clarification on whether to make a declaration of interest are invited to contact the Monitoring Officer or Democratic Services prior to the meeting.
(c) Declarations of interest will be recorded and included in the minutes of this meeting and it is therefore important that clear details are given by members and others in turn, to enable Democratic Services to record accurate information.
(4) At any Full Council meeting except the annual meeting, a special meeting and the budget meeting, Members are given an opportunity to speak for up to three minutes on any issues which specifically relates to their division and is relevant to the services provided by the County Council. These speeches must relate specifically to the area the Member represents and should not be of a general nature. They are constituency speeches and therefore must relate to constituency issues only. This is an opportunity simply to air these issues in a Council meeting. It will not give rise to a debate on the issues or a question or answer session. There is a maximum time limit of 30 minutes for this item.
(5) Members are reminded that petitions can be presented from their seat with a 1 minute time limit set on introducing the petition.
(6) Members are reminded that these papers may be recycled. Appropriate containers are located in the respective secretariats.
(7) Commonly used points of order
36 - Supplementary Questions must be on the same matter
50 - The Member has spoken for more than 10 minutes
52 - The Member is not speaking to the subject under discussion
55 - The Member has already spoken on the motion
60 - Points of Order and Personal Explanations
79 - Disorderly conduct
(8) Time limit of speeches
Motions
50 - no longer than 10 minutes (subject to any exceptions set out in the Constitution)
Constituency Issues
24 - up to 30 minutes allowed
Petitions
27 - up to one minute allowed
Questions to Committee Chairmen
32 - up to 60 minutes allowed
Adjournment Debates
74 - Mover has up to 5 minutes
75 - any other Councillor has up to 3 minutes
76 - relevant Committee Chairman has up to 5 minutes to reply
(B) For Members of the Public
(1) Members of the public wishing to inspect "Background Papers" referred to in the reports on the agenda or Schedule 12A of the Local Government Act should contact:
Customer Services Centre 0300 500 80 80
(2) The papers enclosed with this agenda are available in large print if required. Copies can be requested by contacting the Customer Services Centre on 0300 500 80 80. Certain documents (for example appendices and plans to reports) may not be available electronically. Hard copies can be requested from the above contact.
(3) This agenda and its associated reports are available to view online via an online calendar -
http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/dms/Meetings.aspx