RULE 29. Amendments

1. An Amendment is a motion that just adds something to a Working Paper, excludes something from it, or alters its part.

2. Amendments are to be presented to the Expert in the written form. They are estimated to correspond with the International Law and previous UN resolutions. After that they are handed on to the President of the Council. Each Amendment should be written or typed on a separate paper and include an exact direction to which part of Working Paper it refers and which country proposes it.

3. Amendments to the pre-ambulatory clauses are not in order.

4. Grammatical, spelling and formatting errors in Working Papers will be corrected without a vote. The final decisions on corrections are at the discretion of the President.

5. Amendments to Amendments to Amendments are not in order.

RULE 30. Introducing Amendments

1. When an Amendment is moved to a Working Paper, the Amendments shall be introduced by the Sponsor and voted on.

2. If two or more Amendments to a Working Paper are proposed, the President shall determine the order in which they are voted upon. The committee shall first vote on the Amendment furthest removed in substance from the Working Paper and then on the Amendment next furthest removed until all Amendments have been put to the vote. However, where the adoption of one Amendment necessarily implies the rejection of another Amendment, the latter shall not be put to the vote. The committee will consider a Working Paper including all Amendments adopted by the committee.

3. Prior to the vote on an Amendment, the President shall consider at least one (1) speaker in favor and one (1) speaker opposed to each Amendment and shall give each of them one (1) minute to present their position to the committee.

RULE 31. Amendments to Amendments

1. An Amendment to Amendment is a motion that just adds something to an Amendment, excludes something from it, or alters its part.

2. An Amendment to Amendment is presented orally during the discussion of the main Amendment.

3. A Delegate who proposes it must formulate the motion clearly. Besides the Debate over the Amendment to Amendment is going beyond the time limit set for the Debates over the main Amendment.

4. Submitting an Amendment to Amendment after voting on the main Amendment is not allowed.

5. Several Amendments to the same Amendment are being debate over in the chronological order.

6. After voting on Amendment to Amendment the Council returns to the debates over the main Amendment.

RULE 32. Withdrawal of Amendments

An Amendment may be withdrawn by its Sponsors at any time before voting on it has commenced.

Chapter IV. Voting

RULE 33. Voting

1. Each member of the Security Council shall have one vote.

2. Decisions of the Security Council on procedural matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of a simple majority (50%+1) of the members.

3. Decisions of the Security Council on substantive matters shall be made by an affirmative vote of two thirds members including the concurring votes of the permanent

members, provided that a party to a dispute shall abstain from voting.

4. On procedural matters Delegates must not abstain from voting. Delegates recognized prior to the opening of the meeting as ‘present and voting’ must not abstain from voting on any kind of matters.

5. The voting procedure must not be interrupted except to raise a Point of Order or a Point of Personal Privilege.

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