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Kangaroo closure is a measure coined as early as 1911 reserved for parliamentary procedure wherein the chairman or speaker selects certain amendments for discussion and excludes others.[1] It is termed as such because the chairman, in essence, "leaps" over certain amendments for discussion.[2]

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  1. ^ Jennings, Sir Ivor. (1969). Parliament. Cambridge UP, 60.
  2. ^ Shirur, Rajani R. (1997). World Constitutions. Sterling Publishers, 93.


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