Rajya Sabha Passes This Bill After Voting Over 200 Times

The bill in question was the Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2022.

A voice vote was taken well over 200 times on Tuesday before a Bill was passed by the Rajya Sabha, underlining the procedural rigour involved in legislation.

The bill in question was the Chartered Accountants, the Cost and Works Accountants and the Company Secretaries (Amendment) Bill, 2022.

While the debate on the Bill including the reply of the Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman took about 2 hour 20 minutes, the process of voting on the 106 clauses and clause-wise amendments took over 30 minutes, accounting for about 18 per cent of the total time taken for passing the Bill.

According to rules, each clause, if amendments are moved, is required to be put to vote for two times based on the number of members moving amendments to each clause.