Section 20 — Speaker or Deputy Speaker not to preside while a resolution for his removal from office is under consideration.

20. 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 19 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.




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

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the Legislative Assembly while any resolution for his removal from office is under consideration in
the Assembly and shall, notwithstanding anything in section 25, be entitled to vote only in the first
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instance on such resolution or on any other matter during such proceedings but not in the case of an
equality of votes.
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