Parliamentary Bills
| DOI | 10.1177/002201836202600309 |
| Published date | 01 July 1962 |
| Date | 01 July 1962 |
| Subject Matter | Article |
Parliamentary
Bills
A Parliamentary Bill
does
not always reach the Statute Book. Bills are
frequently amended before
becoming
Acts of Parliament. This sectionshould
be read accordingly.
A
PARLIAMENTARY
Bill which has not passed through
all the stages of parliamentary procedure before the
Session of Parliament in which it was presented is dissolved,
is automatically lost. As only a day or two elapses between the
re-assembly of Parliament after the
Summer
Recess and
Dissolution it means
that
in practice a Bill which has
not
passed through all its stages before Parliament rises for the
Summer
Recess is doomed to failure.
Time
is now running out and unless the Bills now noted
are simple and non-controversial or have weighty government
support, their chances of becoming law are somewhat
restricted.
Of
the
Bills already noted during
the
current Session of
Parliament
the
Criminal Justice Administration Bill has
received
the
Royal Assent, the Road Traffic Bill is well
under
way,
the
Fair
Trade
Practices Bill (wrongly referred to as
the
False
Trade
Practices Bill in the last issue of this
JOURNAL)
has
been lost, and
the
Hire Purchase, Air
Guns
&Shot Guns, etc.,
Lotteries and Gaming and Sexual Offences Bills have all made
insufficient progress to give
them
anything other
than
an
outside chance of success.
FIREWORKS
BILL
Should this Bill become law it will be a criminal offence to
sell or offer for sale a firework designed wholly or mainly to
create noise, unless it explodes at least 15 feet from the ground
and is intended primarily to create a display.
There
will undoubtedly be many who will nostalgically
regret the passing into history of the
jumping
cracker and the
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