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South Australia
Parliamentary Committees (Bushfires Committee) Amendment
Bill 2009
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Parliamentary Committees
Act 1991.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1 Short
title
2 Commencement
3 Amendment provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Parliamentary Committees
Act 1991
4 Insertion of Part 5E
Part 5E—Bushfires Committee
Division 1—Establishment and membership of
Committee
15J Establishment of
Committee
15K Membership of Committee
Division 2—Functions of Committee
15L Functions of
Committee
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Committees (Bushfires
Committee) Amendment Act 2009.
This Act will come into operation 3 months after the day on which the
next general election of members of the House of Assembly after the commencement
of this section is held.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Parliamentary Committees
Act 1991
After Part 5D insert:
Part 5E—Bushfires Committee
Division 1—Establishment and membership of
Committee
15J—Establishment of Committee
The Bushfires Committee is established as a committee of the
Parliament.
15K—Membership of Committee
(1) The Committee is to consist of 7 members.
(2) 4 members of the Committee must be members of the House of Assembly
appointed by the House of Assembly and 3 must be members of the Legislative
Council appointed by the Legislative Council.
(3) A Minister of the Crown is eligible to be a member of the Committee,
and section 21(2)(e) does not apply in relation to the members of the
Committee.
(4) The Committee must from time to time appoint 1 of its House of
Assembly members to be the Presiding Member of the Committee but if the members
are at any time unable to come to a decision on who is to be the Presiding
Member, or on who is to preside at a meeting of the Committee in the absence of
the Presiding Member, the matter is referred by force of this subsection to the
House of Assembly and that House will determine the matter.
Division 2—Functions of
Committee
15L—Functions of Committee
The functions of the Committee are—
(a) to inquire into, consider and report on such matters concerned with
bushfires as are referred to it under this Act; and
(b) to perform such other functions as are imposed on the Committee under
this or any other Act or by resolution of both Houses.