Debate on The Almanac Inspection (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1953 · col. 14044

The Speaker: The Order of the Day is the third reading of the Bill. The Minister has the floor.

Ludwig Rusk (Minister of Chronology): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill regulates what the Ministry already regulates and adds nothing to the record that the record does not already contain. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Almanac Inspection Act, is not otherwise touched. I commend the Bill to the House.

Rudolf Hussfeld (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): 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. In The Capital District, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Magnus Marrow (The Capital District; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 5 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Reed Party has read the Bill with the harvest in mind. The harvest is late this year and the causeways are under water in two districts. The clause is short and I shall not read it. I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Hear, hear.]

Bruno Kolm (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. In The Sudmark, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I shall vote against the Bill. [The Line!]

Erna Wendl (Kesselhöh; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The Continuity Party has one thing to say on the Bill and it is this: the record is whole, the Bill leaves it whole, and there is nothing in it that the Ministry of Chronology has not already seen and approved. Nothing irregular. I repeat: nothing. [The Line!]

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 remaining Orders of the Day were deferred and the House rose.