Private Member Bills:
- If any member other than a minister introduces a bill, it is called a private member bill.
- The bill can be introduced by both ruling and opposition party MPs.
- Private member bill is a bill proposed by a member who is not a member of the cabinet and executive.
- The session for private member bill is held at alternative Fridays from 2 pm to 6 pm.
- This bill needs a month of notice; this has no impact on the health of the government when the private member bill gets rejected.
- Till date, the parliament has passed fourteen private member bills; the last one was passed on 1970.
- Most of the bill passed by private member is not even read or discussed and dismissed.
- Private member’s bills are accepted even if those are constitutional amendment bills but not that those are money bills.