Page 994 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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ELECTORAL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1993
Detail Stage
Clause 22, as amended
Debate resumed.
MS FOLLETT: The consequential amendment which I have put forward, as set out on the grey sheet, deals with the problem which was inherent in Mr Humphries's amendment which has just been passed by the Assembly. That amendment did not deal with the return of a deposit to a candidate who was neither elected nor excluded. The amendment on the grey sheet deals with that situation.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (9.32): Madam Speaker, the Government amendment No. 23 is to omit a subsection and substitute a new subsection. I move:
23. Page 41, lines 24 to 28, proposed new subsection 108(1), omit the subsection, substitute the following subsection:
"(1) Subject to this Division, the ballot papers to be used in an election shall be in accordance with the form in Schedule 1.".
This is another amendment as a result of the removal of the party ticket voting scheme, and I commend it to the Assembly.
Amendment agreed to.
MADAM SPEAKER: I believe that it is the wish of the Assembly to suspend for a short while. We will resume at the ringing of the bells.
Sitting suspended from 9.33 to 9.55 pm
Mr Humphries: Madam Speaker, I raise a point of order. The house was adjourned a short time ago for reasons which were not immediately apparent to the Opposition. I accept that adjournments from time to time are a good idea, and I certainly hope that we can facilitate those by discussion around the chamber; but if it is the intention that one side or the other of this chamber, or an individual member, should have the right to seek and obtain an adjournment purely on his or her own bat - - -
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