Intergovernmental Committee for Safeguarding ICH

　　Rule 24 - Division of proposals

　　Part of a proposal shall be voted on separately if a Member of the Committee requests that the proposal be divided. Those parts of a proposal which have been approved in separate vote shall then be put to a vote as a whole. If all the operative parts of the proposal have been rejected, the proposal shall be considered to have been rejected as a whole.

　　Rule 25 - Voting on amendments

　　25.1 When an amendment to a proposal is moved, the amendment shall be voted on first. When two or more amendments to a proposal are moved, the Committee shall first vote on the amendment deemed by the Chairperson to be furthest removed in substance from the original proposal, and then on the amendment next furthest removed therefrom and so on, until all the amendments have been put to the vote.

　　25.2 If one or more amendments are adopted, the amended proposal shall then be voted upon as a whole.

　　25.3 A motion is considered an amendment to a proposal if it merely adds to, deletes from or revises part of that proposal.

　　Rule 26 - Voting on proposals

　　If two or more proposals relate to the same question, the Committee shall, unless it decides otherwise, vote on the proposals in the order in which they have been submitted. The Committee may, after each vote on a proposal, decide whether to vote on the next proposal.

　　Rule 27 - Withdrawal of proposals

　　A proposal may be withdrawn by its proposer at any time before voting on it has begun, provided that the proposal has not been amended. A proposal withdrawn may be reintroduced by another State Member of the Committee.

　　Rule 28 - Points of order

　　28.1 During a discussion, a State Member may rise to a point of order and the point of order shall be immediately decided by the Chairperson.

　　28.2 An appeal may be made against the ruling of the Chairperson. Such appeal shall be put to the vote immediately and the Chairperson's ruling shall stand unless overruled.