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South Australia
Parliamentary Committees (Natural Disasters Committee)
Amendment Bill 2011
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the Parliamentary
Committees Act 1991; and to make a related amendment to the Parliamentary
Remuneration Act 1990.
Contents
Part 1—Preliminary
1Short title
2Amendment
provisions
Part 2—Amendment of Parliamentary
Committees Act 1991
3Insertion
of Part 5E
Part 5E—Natural Disasters
Committee
Division 1—Establishment and
membership of Committee
15JEstablishment of
Committee
15KMembership of Committee
Division 2—Functions of
Committee
15LFunctions of
Committee
Schedule 1—Related amendment to
Parliamentary Remuneration Act 1990
1Amendment of
Schedule—Additional salary
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Committees (Natural Disasters
Committee) Amendment Act 2011.
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—Natural Disasters
Committee
Division 1—Establishment and membership of
Committee
15J—Establishment of Committee
The Natural Disasters 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
natural disasters 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.
Schedule 1—Related
amendment to Parliamentary Remuneration
Act 1990
1—Amendment
of Schedule—Additional salary
Schedule—after the entry relating to "Other members of the Natural
Resources Committee (unless a Minister)" insert: