Name and address of parliamentary group

18.

(a)

Every parliamentary group is entitled to assume the name that it used in the elections to the Knesset; In the event of a split in a parliamentary group after the elections, the parliamentary group retaining most of the members elected from the candidates' list, is entitled to take the name which it used in the elections; Any other name requires the approval of the House Committee.¹

(b)

Every parliamentary group shall inform the Speaker of its address in writing, and invitations and communications addressed to the parliamentary group shall be sent to this address.

Changes in the parliamentary

18a.

Changes of the following require the approval of the House Committee:

group (amendment

(1)

The parliamentary group make-up of the Knesset;

No. 25)

(2)

The name of a parliamentary group;

(3)

The number of members of a parliamentary group.

Notice to the Speaker and to the Knesset (amendment No. 25)

18b.

The House Committee shall notify the Speaker of every change as aforesaid, which it has approved, and of every split or merger to which the provisions of article 13a of the Parties’ Financing Law, 1973, apply; The Committee shall notify every change to the Knesset.

Notice, publication and the Speaker's

18c.

(a)

The Speaker shall notify the Chairman of the Central Elections Committee all changes in the details prescribed by article 18a, and shall publish them in the Official Gazette.

instructions

(amendment No. 25)

(b)

The Speaker shall instruct the Knesset Financial Controller with regard to the changes made necessary in the financing of the current expenses of a parliamentary group as a result of changes in the parliamentary group make-up of the Knesset.

Parliamentary group amenities

19.

(a)

Every parliamentary group is entitled to a room in the Knesset Building for its work; Compliance with this provision shall take the technical possibilities of the Knesset into account.

(b)

The permanent employees of a parliamentary group - whose number shall be determined in consideration of its size, but shall not exceed five - are entitled to free entry into the Knesset building and its offices.

¹ See provisions regarding parliamentary groups in article 25 to the Knesset Elections Law (combined version), 1969, as well as

the Parties’ Financing Law, 1973. Without determining that an individual member who has left his parliamentary group shall constitute a parliamentary group, it was recognized that in Knesset debates he has all the rights that the Rules of Procedure and practice attribute to a parliamentary group. (HCR - 22.12.1964)