Substantive motion
Topic: Parliamentary Procedure, Committees and Privileges · NCERT: Beyond NCERT
Meaning
A substantive motion is a complete, independent proposal on an important matter. It stands on its own and does not depend on any other motion. Serious decisions of the House, such as removing high officials, are made through substantive motions. Every resolution is a substantive motion.
Example
A motion to impeach the President, or to remove the Chief Election Commissioner, is a substantive motion. Each is a full proposal that the House debates and votes on by itself.
Don't confuse with
- Substitute motion: it is moved in place of an original motion. It depends on that original motion.
- Subsidiary motion: it depends on another motion and has no meaning on its own. An amendment is one example: it changes the wording of another motion.
Related concepts
- Closure motion
- Closure by compartments
- Kangaroo closure
- Motion of thanks
- Adjournment motion
- Suspension of business motion
- Censure motion
- No-confidence motion
- Confidence motion
- Resolution