Beauchesne's Parliamentary Rules and Forms is a Canadian
parliamentary authority
A parliamentary authority is a book of rules for conducting business (parliamentary procedure) in deliberative assemblies. Several different books have been used by legislative assemblies and by organizations' deliberative bodies.
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. The first edition was published in 1922 by
Arthur Beauchesne
Arthur Beauchesne (June 15, 1876 – April 7, 1959) was a Canadian civil servant who was Clerk of the House of Commons from 1925 to 1949. He is the author of the procedural manual, '' Rules and Forms of the House of Commons of Canada'', whic ...
,
Clerk
A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts record keeping as well as general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment. The responsibilities of clerical workers commonly include Records managem ...
of the
House of Commons of Canada
The House of Commons of Canada () is the lower house of the Parliament of Canada. Together with the Monarchy of Canada#Parliament (King-in-Parliament), Crown and the Senate of Canada, they comprise the Bicameralism, bicameral legislature of Ca ...
from 1925 to 1949.
See also
Standard reference works on Canadian Parliamentary procedure have been written by other
Clerks of the House, including
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Sir John George Bourinot
Sir John George Bourinot, (October 24, 1836 – October 13, 1902) was a Canadian journalist, historian, and civil servant, sole author of the first Canadian effort in 1884 to document ''Parliamentary Procedure and Practice'', and remembered ...
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Robert Marleau
References
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Parliamentary authority