Debate on An Act for the Better Regulation of Almanac Inspection

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1953 · col. 13998

The Speaker: The House will come to order. The Bill stands for its third reading. The Minister.

Ludwig Rusk (Minister of Chronology): I beg to move the third reading of the Bill, and I shall be brief. The Bill regulates what the Ministry already regulates and adds nothing to the record that the record does not already contain. I read the material clause to the House. Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. I move.

Paul Brenn (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. The members for Westgau have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. I shall vote against the Bill.

Arno Jann (The Sudmark; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The liberty of the subject is a large phrase for a small Bill, but I use it, because the Bill is small and the liberty is not. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The Sudmark has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Berta Brenn (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. Norrfeld has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. The clause is short and I shall not read it. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Willem Norrholt (The Ostrand; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The Union stands where it has always stood: for the towns, for the trade, and against any clause that begins with the word 'licence'. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. I sit for The Ostrand. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Shame.]

Tobias Kolm (Westgau; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Workers' Front has looked for the working man in this Bill and found him in the schedule, paying. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. Westgau has had a hard year. I say that not against the Bill but so that the Minister remembers it when the fees are fixed. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Paul Brenn (The Sudmark; The Continuity Party): Speaker, I have heard nothing in this debate that touches the record, and I should have heard it, because I listen for it. The Bill is in order. The Sudmark is content with it and so am I. [Shame.]

The Minister, in reply, said that the points raised were answered in the printed Bill and that the Ministry would consider the rest.

The Speaker: The question is that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. As many as are of that opinion say Aye. [Ayes.] Of the contrary, No. [Noes.] A division was claimed.

The Speaker declared the Ayes to have it and the Bill was passed.

The House then proceeded to the next Order of the Day.