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PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES (BUSHFIRES COMMITTEE) AMENDMENT BILL 2009

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:

Part 1—Preliminary

1—Short title

This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Committees (Bushfires Committee) Amendment Act 2009.

2—Commencement

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.

3—Amendment provisions

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

4—Insertion of Part 5E

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.

 


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