VOL. XLIX No. 15 - 1:30 p.m., TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1999

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

 

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF MANITOBA

 

Tuesday, April 27, 1999

 

The House met at 1:30 p.m.

 

PRAYERS

 

ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

 

PRESENTING REPORTS BY

STANDING AND SPECIAL COMMITTEES

 

Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections

First Report

 

Mr. Peter Dyck (Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections): Madam Speaker, I would ask for leave to present a report.

 

Madam Speaker: Does the honourable member for Pembina have leave to present the Standing Committee Report on Privileges and Elections? [agreed]

 

Mr. Dyck: I beg to present the First Report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections.

 

An Honourable Member: Dispense.

 

Madam Speaker: Dispense.

 

Your Standing Committee on Privileges and Elections presents the following as its First Report.

 

Your committee met on Monday, April 26, 1999, at 7 p.m. in Room 255 of the Legislative Assembly to consider bills referred.

 

Your committee heard representation on bills as follows:

 

Bill 17–The Elections Amendment and Elections Finances Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi J lectorale et la Loi sur le financement des campagnes J lectorales;

 

Mr. Fred Toker, Private Citizen

Mr. Paul Neilson, Private Citizen

 

Your committee has considered:

 

Bill 17–The Elections Amendment and Elections Finances Amendment Act; Loi modifiant la Loi J lectorale et la Loi sur le financement des campagnes J lectorales;

 

and has agreed to report the same with the following amendment:

 

MOTION:

 

THAT section 13 of the Bill be amended by renumbering it as subsection 13(1) and by adding the following as subsection 13(2):

 

Coming into force: sections 2 and 3

13(2) Notwithstanding section 178 of The Elections Act, the amendments to The Elections Act, as enacted by sections 2 and 3 of this Act, come into force on the day this Act receives royal assent.

 

Mr. Dyck: I move, seconded by the honourable member for Sturgeon Creek (Mr. McAlpine), that the report of the committee be received.

 

Motion agreed to.