Editing Point of order (section)

=== United Kingdom === 
Until 1998 in the [[British House of Commons]], it was required that a member raising a point of order while the House is [[Division (vote)|voting]] must speak "seated and covered", i.e. wearing a hat.<ref name="scm">{{cite web |title=Select Committee on Modernisation of the House of Commons Fourth Report |url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmselect/cmmodern/600iv/md0405.htm |website=parliament.uk |access-date=17 January 2023}}</ref> Two [[opera hat]]s were maintained in the House for this purpose,<ref>{{Cite web|title = Early day motion 1623 - TOP HATS AND PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE|url =https://edm.parliament.uk/early-day-motion/6214|website = UK Parliament|access-date = 2021-12-08}}</ref> with members of parliament sometimes covering their head with an [[Order Paper]] while the hat was retrieved.<ref name="scm"/> This practice was abolished in accordance with the findings of the [[Select Committee on the Modernisation of the House of Commons]],<ref>{{Cite web|title = House of Commons Hansard Debates for 4 Jun 1998 (pt 19)|url = https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo980604/debtext/80604-19.htm|website = www.publications.parliament.uk|access-date = 2016-02-15}}</ref> who said that the practice "has almost certainly brought the House into greater ridicule than almost any other, particularly since the advent of television".<ref name="scm"/>