First

Session, 45th General Assembly

Elizabeth II, 2004

BILL 65

AN ACT TO AMEND THE

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY ACT

Received and Read the First Time ...................................................................................................

Second Reading .................................................................................................................................

Committee ............................................................................................................................................

Third Reading .....................................................................................................................................

Royal Assent ......................................................................................................................................

HONOURABLE

EDWARD J. BYRNE

Government

House Leader

Ordered

to be printed by the Honourable House of Assembly

EXPLANATORY

NOTE

This Bill would amend the House of Assembly Act to provide authority

for the Speaker of the House of Assembly to create and define the parliamentary

precinct within and around the east block of the Confederation Building Complex.

A BILL

AN ACT TO AMEND THE HOUSE OF

ASSEMBLY ACT

Analysis

Part I.1 Added

PART I.1

PARLIAMENTARY PRECINCT

19.2 Parliamentary

precinct

Be it enacted by the Lieutenant-Governor and

House of Assembly in Legislative Session convened, as follows:

RSNL1990 cH-10

as amended

1. The House

of Assembly Act is amended by adding immediately after

section 19.1 the

following:

PART I.1

PARLIAMENTARY PRECINCT

Parliamentary precinct

19.2

(1) In this Part

(a) "commission" means the Commission of

Internal Economy referred to in the Internal Economy Commission Act ; and

(b) "speaker" means the Speaker of the

House of Assembly.

(2) The speaker may with the concurrence of the commission

make an order to define the parliamentary precinct of the House of Assembly

(

a) within the Confederation

Building

Complex;

(

b) within the common public areas of the east block

of the Confederation Building Complex; and

(

c) in the parking lot next to the north east

entrance of the east block and in front of the east block of the Confederation

Building Complex.

(3) For the purpose of subsection (2), the speaker

and the minister of the Crown who is responsible for the Confederation Building

Complex may enter into an arrangement to jointly control and to provide

security in the common areas, lobby and entrances into the east block of the

Confederation Building Complex, the parking area next to the north east entrance

and in front of the east block and the roadways leading into the east block

entrances from Prince Philip Parkway.

(4) The parliamentary precinct of the House of

Assembly, as defined by order under subsection (2), falls under the control and

management of the speaker.

(5) The speaker may, subject to an order of the

House of Assembly, take any action he or she considers necessary for the

control and management of the parliamentary precinct.

(6) Nothing in this

section shall be taken to

derogate from the powers, privileges and immunities of the House of Assembly

and of the members and committees of the House of Assembly under any other law.

(7) The order made by the speaker under subsection

(2) is subordinate legislation for the purpose of the Statutes and

Subordinate Legislation Act .

Earl G. Tucker, Queen's Printer