Order of Business for sitting of 1st September 2022: Opening of autumn session of Parliament's fourth year

The Speaker of the Kurdistan Parliament Dr. Rewaz Faiq calls MPs to a sitting on Thursday 1st September 2022 at 11am, the first ordinary sitting of the autumn session of the fourth year of the fifth term of Parliament. The Presidency of Parliament announces the order of business of the sitting as follows:

1) A minute’s silence to honour the martyrs of Kurdistan and Iraq, followed by the national anthem.

2) The Speaker will open the autumn session of the fourth year of the fifth term of Parliament, per Article 7 (paragraph 1) of Parliament’s Internal Rules of Procedure. 

3) Speech by the Speaker of Parliament at the opening of the autumn session of the fourth year of the fifth term of Parliament.

4) Speeches of a maximum of five minutes by the heads of the parliamentary parties at the opening of the autumn session of the fourth year of the fifth term of Parliament.

5) First reading of the following bills, per Article 78 (paragraph 2) and Article 83 (para. 1) of Parliament’s Internal Rules of Procedure:

(i) The Bill on Labour in the Kurdistan Region - Iraq.

(ii) The Bill on First Amendments to the Law on the Shura Council of the Kurdistan Region – Iraq, Law No. 14 of 2008.

The Presidency of the Kurdistan Parliament decides and announces the order of business of this sitting according to Parliament’s Internal Rules of Procedure, Article 5, Article 16 (paragraph 1), Article 18 (paragraph 3), Article 20 (paragraphs 1, 2, 3, 4, 5), articles 47 and 48, Article 52 (paragraph 1) and articles 54, 55, 56 and 57.