The Notice Paper is prepared by the Office of the Clerk and shows the formal order in which the House proceeds with business on each sitting day. The House may, on motion without notice postpone an item of business or, more likely, an item of business will not be reached during the course of the day's proceedings. The Notice Paper also records useful information such as the membership of Assembly committees, Members of the House appointed to various offices such as Speaker, Chairman of Committees and Deputy Chairman of Committees. This information is shown at the end of the Notice Paper and produced the first sitting day of each week, usually a Tuesday. The Notice Paper is published in a proof format late on the evening before the day of sitting and is available in its final form at 8.00 am on each sitting day.
Advance copies are sometimes otherwise available.
Occasionally, if a substantial rearrangement or error occurs in the draft of the Notice Paper a revised version may be prepared and published before the meeting of the House. Any revised edition would be appropriately identified. For the purposes of definition Government Business means any business introduced by a Minister. Government Business Notices are those given by a Minister such as to present a bill. Notices given by all other Members are considered to be General Business and are sometimes alternatively referred to as Private Members Business.