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fixes an alternative day or hour of sitting on receipt of a request in writing from an absolute majority of members.

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY (MEMBERS' STAFF) BILL 1989

Detail Stage

Consideration resumed from 26 September 1989.

Clause 3 (Interpretation)

MR DUBY (11.44): I had moved an amendment adding the words "or Presiding Officer" to clause 3 which caused a person to be defined as "an office holder". I believe that that matter is addressed in the amendments that will be moved today by the Chief Minister, so I therefore wish to withdraw my amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister) (11.45): I move:

Page 2, lines 8-11, omit the definition of "office-holder", substitute the following definition:

"'office-holder' means -

(a) a Minister;

(b) the Speaker of the Assembly; or

Amendment agreed to.

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister) (11.46): I move:

Page 2, lines 21-26, omit the definition of "relevant administrative head".

This amendment is really a consequence of a later amendment that I will be moving which proposes the deletion of the whole of part II, so we do not require that definition.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 4 to 9, by leave, taken together.

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister) (11.47): I move:

Page 2, line 29 to page 5, line 20, omit part II (clauses 4 to 9).

I move this amendment rather reluctantly. It relates to the question of ministerial consultants and it has become a

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