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Postpone to a certain time

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Explanation and use
Improper use of tabling a motion
References

In parliamentary procedure, a motion to postpone to a certain time (or postpone definitely or postpone) is used to delay action on a pending question until a different day, meeting, hour or until after a certain event. Then, when that time comes, the consideration of the question is picked up where it was left off when it was postponed.

Explanation and use

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| name = Postpone to a certain time (RONR)
| class = S
| inorder = No
| seconded = Yes
| debatable = Yes
| amendable = Yes
| voterequired = Majority, unless it makes the question a special order, in which case a two-thirds vote is required
| reconsidered = Yes

Using Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), action on a pending question may be postponed to another time. Alternatively, a motion can be postponed until after a specific event has occurred, such as after an officer makes a relevant report. A postponed question becomes an order of the day (a general order or a special order in the order of business) for the time to which it is postponed.^[1] Postponing a motion is permitted so long as:

There is a meeting on the date the motion is postponed to. For example, a main motion cannot be postponed to a day where there is no regular meeting or where a special meeting has not been planned yet.
The date to which the main motion is being postponed is not too late for it to be effective. For example, if the main motion proposes that there be a picnic on September 3, the motion cannot be postponed to September 5, because that would be too late for it to be carried out.

Under Demeter's Manual, if a motion to postpone definitely specifies a time that falls after the next regular meeting, or after a certain event which will not occur until after the next regular meeting, then it is treated as a motion to postpone indefinitely, which effectively ends consideration of the pending question.^[2]

A motion to postpone an action or event that was previously scheduled is distinct from the subsidiary motion to postpone to a certain time, and is a type of the motion to amend something previously adopted.^[3]

Generally, a motion to postpone is applied to a main motion and not to other motions alone.^[4]

Debate on the motion to postpone to a certain time should be brief and confined only to the reasons for and time of the postponement.^[5] Amendments to it may only relate to the desired date that the assembly will resume consideration or if the question is to be a special order.^[5]

The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure (TSC) treats the motion to postpone to a certain time similar to that in RONR. A difference is that TSC does not allow this motion to be reconsidered.^[6]

Improper use of tabling a motion

Frequently, a motion is improperly "tabled" until the next meeting. In this case, the proper procedure would have been to postpone the motion to the next meeting.^[7]

References

1. ^{{Cite book|title = Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised|last = Robert|first = Henry M.|publisher = Da Capo Press|year = 2011|isbn = 978-0-306-82020-5|location = Philadelphia, PA|pages = 186|edition = 11th|ref = harv|display-authors = et al.}}
2. ^{{cite parl|title=DEM|pages=89}}
3. ^{{Harvard citation no brackets|Robert|2011|p = 180}}
4. ^{{Harvard citation no brackets|Robert|2011|p = 181}}
5. ^¹{{Harvard citation no brackets|Robert|2011|p = 182}}
6. ^{{cite parl|title=TSC|pages=58–62}}
7. ^{{Cite web|url = http://www.robertsrules.com/faq.html#12|title = Frequently Asked Questions about RONR (Question 12)|date = 2011|access-date = 2016-02-13|website = The Official Robert's Rules of Order Web Site|publisher = The Robert's Rules Association|last = Robert III|first = Henry M.}}

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