Section 8 — Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration.

8. Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is 

under consideration.―(1) At any sitting of the Legislative Assembly, while any resolution for the 

removal of the Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Speaker, or while any resolution for the 

removal of the Deputy Speaker from his office is under consideration, the Deputy Speaker, shall not, 

though he is present, preside and the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 7 shall apply in relation to 

every such sitting as they apply in relation to a sitting from which the Speaker or, as the case may be, the 

Deputy Speaker is absent.  

(2) The Speaker shall have the right to speak in, and otherwise to take part in the proceedings of, the 

Legislative Assembly while any resolution for his removal from office is under consideration in the 

Assembly and shall, notwithstanding anything in section 12, be entitled to vote only in the first instance 

on such resolution or on any other matter during such proceedings but not in the case of an equality of 

votes.