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EUTHANASIA - SELECT COMMITTEE
Printing and Circulation of Report
MR MOORE (11.29): I move:
That:
(1) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Select Committee on Euthanasia has completed its inquiry into the Voluntary and Natural Death Bill 1993, the Committee may send its report to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker who is authorised to give directions for its printing and circulation; and
(2) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.
Madam Speaker, when the select committee was set up its reporting date was given as 17 March. That was before the sitting pattern had been determined. I believe that the committee will be ready to report on 17 March. Therefore I urge support from members of the Assembly to allow us to report on the set date, or by the set date, by means of the procedure that we have become quite used to in these sorts of circumstances.
MR LAMONT (11.30): Madam Speaker, as one of the other members of the committee, I echo the sentiments of Mr Moore. It is important. Given the issues and how they have been debated to date, it is appropriate that we get out the findings of our committee as early as possible. That is the reason why this process was seen as appropriate, although unusual, given that a date had been set for the report.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
LEGAL AFFAIRS - STANDING COMMITTEE
Inquiry into the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993
MR HUMPHRIES (11.32): Madam Speaker, I ask for leave to make a statement and to move a motion regarding a new inquiry by the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: I wish to inform the Assembly that on 16 February 1994 the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs resolved to inquire into and report on the Statute Law Revision (Penalties) Bill 1993, which was introduced by the Government late last year. Accordingly, it is appropriate that I move the following motion:
That notwithstanding the provisions of standing order 174:
(1) 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.
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