SO 2017-19 General debate Act

An Act to regulate general debates in Parliament.

WHEREAS Parliament has the right to debate and discuss general as well as specific matters of interest;

WHEREAS there is no place to debate such matters of interest specifically in Parliament as of this moment;

BELIEVING that it would be insufficient for Parliament to create a new topic for any new debate;

BE IT ENACTED by Us, with the consent and advice of Parliament, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Article 1
There shall be created and maintained by the Speaker of Parliament a general debate topic in the Debate Hall of Parliament for each Session of Parliament within 72 hours after he is elected to said office. If the Speaker is, by any means, unable to create said topic within 72 hours, the Founder will create it by default, however, the Founder will not have any executive or administrative powers with regards to this debate topic than he would otherwise, as Founder of the Region, have over such a topic.

Article 1A
Within 72 hours after this Bill has become Law, the Prime Minister is obligated to create a topic as set out in Article 1 of this Act, which shall last as long as the first next Session is created under Article 1 of this Act. If the Speaker is, by any means, unable to create said topic within 72 hours, the Founder will create it by default, however, the Founder will not have any executive or administrative powers with regards to this debate topic than he would otherwise, as Founder of the Region, have over such a topic.

Article 2
Every Members of Parliament shall be entitled to post and react in the general debate topic. Order shall be remained by and through the Speaker of Parliament, or another Speaker for that debate topic as the Speaker may appoint.

Article 3
Posts with regards to an issue that is specifically regulated by a Bill or Amendment that has been put to Parliament, not being a mention of a general issue relating to that matter, shall be moved by the Speaker to the topic of that Bill or Amendment.

Article 4
Posts with regards to issues that are specifically debated by a Parliamentary Committee, not being a mention of a general issue relating to that matter, shall be moved by the Speaker to the topic of that Parliamentary Committee.

Article 5
Each and every Member of Parliament has the right to ask questions to the Executive Branch of the governance. Such questions may be put and answered in the general debate topic of the day.

Article 6
This Act may be cited as "[The] General Debate Act 2017".

24 March 2017
The Hon. Nassau-Windsor MP LSM
The Hon. Thomolia MP
The Rt. Hon. Libertarian Democracy MP LSM
The Hon. Abdoa MP GSM LSM
The Rt. Hon. Prime Minister, Sepharich MP

Debate will be open until Saturday April 8, 2017.

I do hereby table a Motion to move to a vote.

Abdoa wrote:I do hereby table a Motion to move to a vote.

I support the motion of the Hon. Member [Abdoa].

Debate suspended: please go vote in the voting chamber.