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should seek no more or no less than io necessary to enable legislators to discharge their duties and obligations properly,
without fear or favour.
We deliberated at length and in great detail particularly over the provisions of Clause 20 and Clause 24, The resultant consensus is that Clause 20 will be deleted entirely and that Clauco 24 will be so agonded as to reflect our agreement that unlawful acts of the Council or the President or officers of the Council would still be subjected to the scrutiny of the judiciary.
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I will not attempt to dvoll any further on the various amendments and the rationale bohind them as I am sure they will be more competontly covered by my colleagues in their respoctive aspeeched. Instead, I would like to comment briefly on ono widely publicised acsertion that it would not be conducive to publie confidence in the legislature if this Bill is pushed through with "indocent haste" during the current session bofore the relval of the elected nombers. auch is forwarded as one of the principal reasons behind the call for deferment of the Second Reading of the Bill. Sir, I am sure I will not be alone in questioning the logic behind such an
Public assertion and the validity of ice implied assumptions. confidence in the legislature surely has to be earned, it does not cone automatically with the arrival or otherwise of elected membez9. In any code, the implied casumption that elected members would have less veated interest than appointed members in this issue does not hold true. Why then should it follow chat appointed mombers, sitting in the current sousion of the legislature, will not be able to look after the interest of tho public whilet doliberating over the provisione, of this Bill.
photos aludtod or appointed In my view, 18 and whọn Members/are first satisfied that they have been conscientious and doligont in their deliberations and in so doing, secondly, havo fully taken into consideration of all representation whilst trying, thirdly, to take steps to amond what might have boon wrong, then, their duties as legislators would have been discharged honorably.
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