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debate is resumed.

Part 7 - Conduct of persons at council and committee meetings
7.1 Official titles to be used
Elected Members are to speak of each other in the Council or Committee by their respective titles of Shire President or Councillor. Members, in speaking of or addressing officers, are to designate them by their respective official titles.

7.2 Members to occupy own seats
When present in the meeting room, a member will occupy the seating position allocated to him or her for each specific Council or Committee meeting.

7.3 Leaving meetings
During the course of a meeting of the Council or a Committee no member is to enter or leave the meeting without first advising the presiding member, in order to facilitate the recording in the minutes of the time of entry or departure.

7.4 Adverse reflection
    (1)  No member is to reflect adversely upon a decision of the Council or Committee except on a motion that the decision be revoked or amended.
    (2) No member is to;
       (a) reflect adversely on the character or actions of another member or any other person;
        or
       (b) impute any motive to another member or any other person unless the Council resolves,  without debate, that the question then before the meeting               cannot otherwise be adequately considered.
    (3) No member is to use offensive or insulting expressions in reference to any member or any other person.

7.5 Withdrawal of offensive language
    (1)  A member who, in the opinion of the Presiding Member, uses an expression which;
       (a)  in the absence of a resolution under clause 7.4(2);
          (i)  reflects adversely on the character or actions of another member; or
          (ii)  imputes any motive to a member; or
       (b)      is offensive or insulting, must, when directed by the Presiding Member, withdraw the expression and make a satisfactory apology.
    (2) If a member fails to comply with a direction of the Presiding Member under the above subclause (1), the Presiding Member may refuse to hear the member further on the matter then under discussion and call on the next speaker.

7.6 Disturbance by members
While another person is addressing the Council or a Committee, a member is not;
       (a) to make any noise or disturbance; or
       (b) to converse aloud;
except to raise a point of order, to interrupt.

7.7 Continued irrelevance
    (1) The Presiding Member, at any time, may;
       (a) call the attention of the meeting to;
          (i) any irrelevant, repetitious, offensive or insulting language by an member; or
          (ii) any breach of order by a member; and
       (b) direct that member, if speaking, to discontinue his or her speech.
    (2) A member is to comply with a direction of the Presiding Member under subclause