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CONSIDERATION OF ASSEMBLY BUSINESS
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent Assembly business, order of the day No. 1, relating to the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs report No. 4 on the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993, being called on immediately after the resolution of any question relating to the conclusion of consideration of Executive business, order of the day No. 2, relating to the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993.
INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 3) 1993
[COGNATE BILL AND REPORT:
STATUTE LAW REVISION (PENALTIES) BILL 1993
LEGAL AFFAIRS - STANDING COMMITTEE - REPORT ON STATUTE LAW REVISION (PENALTIES) BILL 1993]
Debate resumed from 22 September 1994, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993 and the motion relating to report No. 4 of the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs? There being no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that in debating order of the day No. 1 they may also address their remarks to order of the day No. 2 and Assembly business, order of the day No. 1, relating to report No. 4 of the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs.
MS SZUTY (4.43): Madam Speaker, I indicate to the Assembly that, in the first instance, I will be addressing the report of the Legal Affairs Committee on the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993. I think it is appropriate that I deal briefly with the committee's report, and then we will hear debate on the Bill itself, as a consequence. On 16 February of this year, the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs resolved, on my motion, to inquire into and report on the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993. On 24 February 1994, the chairman moved that, notwithstanding the provisions of standing order 174, the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993 be referred to the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs for inquiry and report by the last sitting day of June 1994 and that, on the committee presenting its report to the Assembly, resumption of debate on the question "That this Bill be agreed to in principle" be set down as an order of the day for the next sitting. We have been some time in arriving at this debate. However, I believe that the committee has quite comprehensively gone through the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill and examined each of the proposals in some detail.
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