深圳市人民代表大会议事规则 Rules of Procedure of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress

颁布日期：19971114 　实施日期：19980101 　颁布单位：深圳市人大

Rules of Procedure of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress

(Adopted at the Third Meeting of the First Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress on April 26, 1992. Revised　for the first time in accordance with the decision on amending the Rules of Procedure of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress at the Fifth Meeting of the First Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress on April 26, 1993. Revised for the second time in accordance with the decision on amending the Rules of Procedure of the Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress at the fourth Meeting of the second Shenzhen Municipal People’s Congress on November14,1997.)

　　Chapter 1　General Provisions

　　Article 1 These rules are enacted in accordance with the Constitution of the People’s Republic of China, the Organic Law of the People’s Republic of China on the People’s Congress and People’s Governments at All Local Levels and the Law of the People’s Republic of China on the Deputies to the National People’s Congress and People’s Congress at All Local Levels.

　　Article 2 The Municipal People’s Congress shall fully carry forward democracy and apply the principle of democratic centralism while holding meetings.

　　Chapter 2　Convening Meetings

　　Article 3 The Municipal People’s Congress shall meet in session at least once every year. The regular meeting of every year shall be held before the end of March in general; it may be properly shifted earlier or postponed under special circumstances.

　　When the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress deems it necessary, or upon a proposal by at least one fifth of the deputies to the Municipal People's Congress, a temporary meeting of the Municipal People's Congress may be convened.

　　Article 4 The meeting of the Municipal People's Congress shall be convened by the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress. The first meeting of each session of the Municipal People's Congress shall be convened by the Standing Committee of the previous Municipal People's Congress within two months, after the election of deputies to the current Municipal People's Congress finishes.

　　Article 5 The Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress shall notify the deputies of the date of meeting and of the main items proposed to be deliberated at the meeting twenty days before the Municipal People's Congress holds the meeting.

　　Deputies may be notified temporarily, if the Municipal People's Congress holds a temporary meeting.

　　Article 6 A meeting of the Municipal People's Congress shall not be held until more than two third of its deputies are present.

　　When the Municipal People's Congress holds a meeting, its deputies shall attend the meeting. If a deputy can’t attend the meeting for illness or other special reasons, he shall ask the meeting of directors of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’s Congress for absence. If a deputy asks for leave for reasons during the meeting, he shall ask the head of his delegation for leave, and the head of his delegation shall report it to the Secretariat of the meeting for record.

　　Article 7 The Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress shall, before a meeting of the Municipal People's Congress is held, conduct the following preparatory work for the meeting:

　　(1) To draw up draft agenda and schedule of the meeting;

　　(2) To draw up name list draft of the Presidium and the Secretary-General;

　　(3) To draw up draft name list of the permanent chairmen and the executive chairmen of the Presidium assigned to groups;

　　(4) To draw up draft name list of the Vice Secretary-General;

　　(5) To draw up draft name list of members of related committees of the meeting;

　　(6) To decide

on the name list of non-voting participants; and

　　(7) To make other preparations for the meeting.

　　Article 8 Before a meeting of the Municipal People's Congress is held, deputies shall be grouped into delegations based on the districts. The head and deputy-heads of a delegation shall be elected at a plenary meeting of the delegation. Each delegation may be subdivided into groups of deputies. The convener of a group shall be elected at a group meeting of deputies.

　　Before a meeting of the Municipal People's Congress is held, delegations shall discuss the draft name list of the Presidium and the Secretary-General, the draft agenda and other preparation work for the meeting proposed by the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress.

　　Delegations shall deliberate proposals and discuss related matters of the meeting at their plenary meetings or their group meetings.

　　Article 9 Functions and duties of the head of a delegation are as follows:

　　(1) To convene and preside over a plenary meeting of the delegation;

　　(2) To organize the delegation to deliberate proposals and related reports of the meeting;

　　(3) To submit deliberation opinions of the delegation on proposals and related reports;

　　(4) To guide addressing questions and inquiring at meetings of the delegation;

　　(5) To implement decisions of the meeting of the Presidium and transmit related matters;

　　(6) To handle other work of the delegation.

　　The deputy-heads shall assist in the work of the head of the delegation.

　　Article 10 Preparatory meeting shall be held for every meeting of the Municipal People's Congress. The preparatory meeting shall be presided over by the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress. The preparatory meeting for the first meeting of each Municipal People's Congress shall be presided over by the Standing Committee of the previous Municipal People's Congress.

　　The main agenda of the preparatory meeting is to elect the Presidium and the Secretary-General of this meeting and adopt decisions on the meeting agenda and other related matters.

　　The draft name list for election, the draft agenda and other drafts submitted to the preparatory meeting of the Municipal People's Congress shall be put forward by the Standing Committee of the Municipal People's Congress. The draft name list for election, the draft agenda and other drafts submitted to the preparatory meeting of the first meeting of each Municipal People's Congress shall be put forward by the Standing Committee of the previous Municipal People's Congress, and referred to delegations for deliberation. The meeting of directors of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People 's Congress may, based on the opinions of all delegations, put forward opinions on adjustments of related drafts, and refer them to the preparatory meeting for discussion.

　　The election of members of the Presidium and the Secretary-General at the preparatory meeting may adopt equal-number election system, and the voting may be conducted by raising hands or other methods.

　　The election and voting matters shall be adopted, if a simple majority of all the deputies to the Municipal People's Congress vote for.

　　Article 11 The number of members of the Presidium of each meeting of the Municipal People's Congress shall be ten percent to fifteen percent of the total number of the deputies to it.

　　Article 12 Functions and duties of the Presidium are as follows:

　　(1) To preside over the plenary meeting of the Municipal People's Congress;

　　(2) To lead works of all committees of the Municipal People's Congress;

　　(3) To raise proposals and various draft resolutions to the meeting;

　　(4) To organize to deliberate proposals and related reports listed on the agenda of the meeting;

　　(5) To put forward the candidates for leading persons of the municipal state organs who shall be elected at the meeting of the Municipal People's Congress;

　　(6) To preside over the election at the meeting and propose draft of specific measures for the election;

　　(7) To decide on the procedure of deliberating proposals, removal proposals and inquiry proposals and handling opinions;

　　(8) To release proclamations;

　　(9) Other matters requiring decisions by the Presidium.

　　The meeting of the Presidium shall not be held until more than two thirds of all its members are present.

　　A decision of the Presidium shall not be adopted until a simple majority of all members vote for.

　　Article 13 The meeting of the Presidium shall be convened and presided over by the permanent chairmen of the Presidium.

　　The first　meeting of the Presidium shall be convened by the director of the Standing Committee of the Municipal People’ s Congress. The first　meeting of the Presidium of the first meeting of each Municipal People’s Congress shall be convened by the director of the Standing Committee of the previous Municipal People's Congress. If the director can’t attend the meeting for reasons, the Director shall entrust a vice-director to convene the meeting. The first meeting of the Presidium shall elect several permanent chairmen of the Presidium. The number of the permanent chairmen of the Presidium shall be one fifth to one third of the total number of all members of the Presidium in general.

　　The following matters shall be decided at the first meeting of the Presidium:

　　(1) Candi

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