Rule 112: Executive Mayor's question time

Rule 112 governs the Executive Mayor's question time at council meetings. Councillors give notice of questions to the Executive Mayor (subrules 112(1) and 112(4) are cited), and the questions are then put and answered in the meeting. The passages do not quote the rule or explain the notice periods, how many questions are allowed, or what each subrule says, so those details are unclear.

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How the minutes record it

Councillor Meyers (DA) stated that he wrote to the Office of the Speaker in terms of Rule 112(4)(a) of the Standing Rules and Orders of Council stating that “A Councillor who wishes to put a question for Oral Reply to the Executive Mayor must deliver a signed request to the Secretary to Council not more than ten working days before the day of the Council meeting before the Executive Mayor's Question Time during which he or she wishes to ask the question. Such a request does not have to include information about the topic or wording of the intended question” and he did submit a request to the…
Signed minutes, Tuesday, 29 August 2023

Every meeting whose minutes cite it (6)

Heard in the chamber

30 September 2026, 00:30:22
We now proceed with item three, and that's the Executive Mayor's Question Time, of which notice has been given in terms of rule 112 subsection 1 of the Standing Rules and Orders of Council.
27 August 2026, 00:24:06
Thank you very much, Madam Speaker. The next item is Executive Mayor's Question Time, of which notice has been given in terms of rule 112(1) of the standing rules and orders of council.
26 August 2026, 01:03:35
Councillors, we proceed with item 5B, and those are questions for written reply of which notice has been given in terms of Rules 105, Subsection 2, and Rule 112, Subsection A, of the standing rules and orders of council.