Commonwealth of Fremont • 2nd House of Commons

[Barnes]

The Prime Minister on his way to the State Opening of Parliament.

[Barnes]

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[Barnes]

i nominate barnes for speaker

I am most honored to accept the nomination and submit myself to the will of the House.

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[Barnes]

Mr Speaker-elect speaking on the upper step of the chair: I would like to thank the House for the confidence which it has placed in me. I shall strive in all of my actions and rulings to uphold the rights of all honorable members and the traditions of the House.

Mr Speaker taking the chair: Order, order!

Some honorable members: Hear, hear!

[Barnes]

I move the following motion, that:

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2. Insert the following text after Standing Order III (3):

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[Barnes]

AN ACT
To provide for the date when persons elected or appointed to the Senate of Atlasia shall take their seat; and for connected purposes.

Be it enacted by the Parliament of the Commonwealth of Frémont:

Section One: Title and other provisions.
1. This Act may be cited as the "Senate (Commencement of Terms) Act of 2017."
2. This Act shall come into force on the date it is approved.

Section Two: Determing the date for regularly scheduled terms.
1. Any person elected to a regular term representing the Commonwealth in the Senate of Atlasia shall take his or her seat on the first Friday of the month following his or her election.

Section Three: Determining the date for persons appointed or elected to fill a casual vacancy.
1. Any person appointed by the Prime Minister to a fill a casual vacancy in the Senate shall take his or her seat immediately following his or her appointment.
2. Any person elected to fill the remainder of a term resulting from a casual vacancy shall take his or her seat immediately following the declaration of their election.

Section Four: Disqualification for failing to take a seat.
1. In all cases within this Act, any person who fails to take their seat within three days from the applicable date shall be deemed disqualified and the respective seat declared vacant by the Prime Minister.

[Barnes]

I'd like to inform the House that I will be away from 5 June to 8 June, inclusive, as part of an exchange with the Inter-Parliamentary Union touring our sister Parliaments in Canada. During my absence, I have asked the Prime Minister to assume my duties as Speaker.  

[Barnes]

I remind the House that I will be on very limited activity between now and June 8. The Prime Minister shall have the full powers of presiding officer for that time.

[Barnes]

I am back on regular activity now and will pick up my duties again tomorrow. I see that the Prime Minister will be on limited activity from today, so that worked out quite efficiently!

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Seeing as Evergreen is no longer a Member of this House, I shall allow Honorable Members a period of thirty-six hours to assume sponsorship of this proposed bill if they so desire. If no Member does so within that time period, the bill shall be tabled.

[Barnes]

You are always able to introduce bills.  If there are more than three regular bills at a time, they will simply build up in the queue and will come to the floor in the order of introduction.