SECTION 22

(1) Before setting up General Committees, Group Chairpersons shall submit to the President of the National Assembly the electoral list of their members. Such list shall be posted up and published in the verbatim report and in the Official Gazette of Debates. (2) Each Group shall be entitled to such number of seats on each General Committee as is proportional to its numerical strength. (3) The seats shall thus be allocated to the duly constituted Groups under the conditions stipulated in Section 20 above according to the 12 rule of the highest average. After such distribution, the remaining seats shall be allocated by the President of the National Assembly to Members of the National Assembly who do not belong to any Group. (4) Before the General Committees are set up, the Group Chairpersons shall submit to the President of the National Assembly the lists of candidates drawn up by them. (5) After being posted up for a minimum period of twelve hours, the lists of candidates for General Committee membership shall be submitted for adoption by the National Assembly if, before such adoption, they have not given rise to objections from at least 14 (fourteen) Members of the National Assembly. (6) Objections and the reasons thereof shall be submitted in writing to the President of the National Assembly and published in the verbatim report and in the Official Gazette of Debates. In the event of objections, the National Assembly shall hold a vote by list system in plenary sitting, on the understanding that the results of the ballot shall in no way modify the numerical representation of Groups in Committees. (7) The resignation or exclusion of a member from a Group shall entail loss of the privileges which he enjoyed as member of that Group and, in particular, of his status as member of the Committee to which he had been appointed by the Group. Any member expelled or who resigns shall be replaced by his Group forthwith. (8) No Member of the National Assembly may belong to more than 2 (two) General Committees.