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The House approved the 2020 Budget proposals for the following Constitutional Agencies’ Current and Capital Estimates, totaling $11,285,807,000:

                                                                                                                                    $

• Parliament Office                                                                -           1,799,248,000
• Office of the Auditor General                                           -           908,636,000
• Public and Police Service Commission                         -           150,636,000
• Teaching Service Commission                                        -           117,075,000
• Guyana Elections Commission                                       -           4,943,052,000
• Supreme Court of Judicature                                          -           2,443,164,000
• Chamber of the Director of Public Prosecution           -           229,412,000
• Office of the Ombudsman                                                 -           70,001,000
• Public Service Appellate Tribunal                                  -           40,911,000
• Ethnic Relations Commission                                          -           220,802,000
• Judicial Service Commission                                           -           10,020,000
• Indigenous Peoples’ Commission                                  -           24,392,000   
• Human Rights Commission                                             -           25,958,000
• Rights of the Child Commission                                      -           46,095,000
• Women and Gender Equality Commission                  -           49,945,000
• Public Procurement Commission                                   -           206,460,000
   

Motions:

The following motions were passed by the House:

1. Suspension of Standing Order No. 9

Recess for the National Assembly.

• That the National Assembly agrees to suspend Standing Order No. 9 in order to allow the commencement of Sittings of the National Assembly to deliberate on urgent parliamentary matters, including the presentation and consideration of the 2020 Estimates of Revenue and Expenditure on or before 10^th October, 2020.

(Notice Paper No. 1 (M1Govt 1) published on 2020-08-28)

• A motion Moved by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs & Governance

1. Standing Order No. 10 (1) and (2)

Hours of Sitting

• Standing Order No. 10(1) and (2) be suspended to enable the Assembly to sit in the Twelfth Parliament during the following hours due to the Coronavirus Disease (COVID – 19) pandemic, to proceed with the work of the National Assembly:
• 10.00 a.m.           -           12.00 noon – Sitting
• 12.00 noon.         -           1.00 p.m. – Suspension
• 1.00 pm. -           4.00 p.m. – Sitting
• 4.00 p.m. -           5.00 p.m. - Suspension
• 5.00 p.m. -           8.00 p.m. - Sitting

 (Notice Paper No. 2 (M2  Govt 2) published on 2020-08-28)

• A motion moved by the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance

The Assembly was adjourned on a motion by the Prime Minister to a date to be fixed.