1998 TORY BELL RINGING EXPENSES BILL No. 741 of

An Act respecting Taxpayer Indemnification for Obstructionist Parliamentary Tactics (Assented to , 1998) HER MAJESTY, by and with the advice and consent of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan, enacts as follows:

Short title This Act may be cited as The Tory Bell Ringing Expenses Indemnification Act (Who’s Tory Now at $28,000 per day?) Calculation of costs Whenever the usual democratic business of the Legislative Assembly is held up and impeded by obstructionist parliamentary tactics, to wit the introduction of a vast number of meaningless private members’ public bills, the Minister of Finance shall calculate the cost of the sittings of the Legislative Assembly at the rate of $28,000.00 per day for those days when such tactics prevent the Assembly from carrying on such business. Recovery of Costs The Minister of Finance shall table a Statement of Costs, calculated pursuant to

section 2, in the Legislative Assembly, and upon the tabling of that Statement it shall be lawful for the Minister of Finance, on behalf of the Lieutenant Governor in Council, to recover such amount as a debt due and owing from the political party whose members employed the obstructionist tactics referred to in

section 2. Coming into force This Act comes into force on assent. 1998 TORY BELL RINGING EXPENSES REGINA, SASKATCHEWAN Printed by the authority of THE QUEEN’S PRINTER Copyright©1998