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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1991

TURNING TO CLAUSES 2, 3 AND 8, MR MATHEWS SAID AS WELL AS BEING OF LARGELY CONSEQUENTIAL, THEY ALSO SOUGHT TO SIMPLIFY THE STRUCTURE THE EXISTING PROVISIONS.

CLAUSE 2 WAS TO REPEAL AND REPLACE SECTION 30 OF THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS ORDINANCE.

SECTION 30 AT PRESENT PROVIDED SIX GROUNDS FOR PRESENTING AN ELECTION PETITION, SEVERAL OF WHICH REFERRED TO THE ELECTION HAVING BEEN "AVOIDED" OR "WHOLLY AVOIDED",

WELL THESE GROUNDS DID NOT SIT

WITH

A THE NOVEMBER 1990 AMENDMENTS AND THEREFORE CLAUSE 2 PRINCIPAL NEW GROUND THAT A PERSON HAD NOT BEEN "DULY ELECTED".

PROPOSED

AT THE SAME TIME CLAUSE 2 TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO REMOVE DUPLICATION AND REPETITION IN THE STRUCTURE OF SECTION 30, SO THAT ANY

OF QUESTIONING

AN ELECTION WOULD BE DEPENDENT EITHER ON DISQUALIFICATIONS UNDER SECTION 19 OF THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS ORDINANCE OR THE COMMISSION OF CORRUPT OR ILLEGAL PRACTICES.

"THIS SHOULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR PROSPECTIVE PETITIONERS AND ADVISERS THEIR

TO FRAME CORRECTLY WORDED ELECTION

MR PETITIONS,"

MATHEWS SAID.

CLAUSE 3 WAS TO REPEAL AND REPLACE SECTION 35 OF THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS ORDINANCE DEALING WITH TIME LIMITS FOR PRESENTATION OF ELECTION PETITIONS.

LINE

THE

INTO PROPOSED SECTION 35 WOULD MERELY BRING THE PROVISION WITH THE EQUIVALENT IN THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ( ELECTORAL PROVISIONS) ORDINANCE BY PROVIDING THAT AN ELECTION PETITION SHOULD BE PRESENTED WITHIN TWO MONTHS AFTER THE PUBLICATION BY THE RETURNING OFFICER OF THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH REGULATIONS MADE UNDER SECTION 28.

COUNCIL EQUIVALENT

BY

CLAUSE 8 WAS TO AMEND SECTION 29 OF THE LEGISLATIVE

PROVISIONS) (ELECTORAL

THE ORDINANCE IN THE SAME WAY AS SECTION 30 OF THE ELECTORAL PROVISIONS ORDINANCE WAS TO BE AMENDED CLAUSE 2.

DEBATE ON THE MOTION WAS ADJOURNED.

0

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AMENDMENT TO IMPROVE LEGAL AID PRACTICES

THE LEGAL AID (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991 SEEKS TO GIVE EFFECT

ELIGIBILITY FOR IN ASSESSING NEW SYSTEM OF MEANS TESTING AND TO IMPROVE AND GIVE STATUTORY FEFRIT TO CERTAIN AID PRACTICES.

TO A

LEGAL AID EXISTING LEGAL

THIS WAS STATED BY THE SECRETARY

SECOND THE WHEN MOVING PETER TSAQ,

(WEDNESDAY). LEGISLATIVE COUNCEL TODAY

FOR HONE READING

OF

AFFAIRS, THE HON THE

THE BILL AT

/AT PRESENT