Page 4838 - Week 15 - Thursday, 8 December 1994
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Would the Chief Minister suggest, for example, with our population growth, which is higher than anywhere else in the country, that we should not consider having more members when our population grows to 350,000, 400,000 or 500,000 people? We already have, as the Chief Minister or Mr Moore said, the lowest ratio of politicians to electors anywhere in the country. There is also the question of access by electors to our members. So, Madam Speaker, I think the argument is one that could be debated at another time; but the point we make is that we agree that this should be dealt with, not by people in here, but by members of the community through a referendum. We commit ourselves to that process and we support it.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 5
MR HUMPHRIES (4.49): Madam Speaker, I move:
Page 3, lines 8 and 9, omit the lines, substitute:
"(2) A law to which this Act applies by virtue of section 4 has no effect unless it is passed by -".
This is a very simple amendment, which simply deals with the fact that it was probably redundant to refer originally to a law including an amendment or repeal. It is, by definition, possible for an amendment or repeal to be affected only by a law, and therefore those words that were in the original Bill are not necessary.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Title agreed to.
MADAM SPEAKER: The question now is: That this Bill, as amended, be agreed to. As this is entrenching legislation, we need to proceed to a vote.
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