Debate on The Data Protection (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1958 · col. 14421

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

Emil Hallin (Minister of the Interior): I move the third reading. The town councils have asked for the Bill by their clerks. The Ministry has drafted it as the councils asked, and shortened it. The Bill provides as follows. Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 112 marka. The Bill amends The Data Protection Act, which the House will remember passing, and amends it in one particular only. I ask the House to pass it.

Hugo Bauer (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, 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. An officer under the Act: the phrase appears in every Bill from the Interior and means a man with a book and a bicycle. My constituents in The Sudmark wrote to me about the Bill, all 6 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I shall vote against the Bill.

Viktor Reinholt (The Ostrand; The Reed Party): Speaker, The people of The Ostrand will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. 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. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. Drains, roads and lamps. The House will pass the Bill because the alternative is drains, roads and no lamps. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [The Line!]

Tobias Tarnholt (The Osmoor; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I sit for The Osmoor. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. 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 material provision is this: Licences are issued by the Ministry of the Interior for a fee of 112 marka. I ask the House to note it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Bruno Kessler (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, I ask the House to consider the tradesman who will have to comply with this. He has not been consulted; he has been notified. My constituents in Norrfeld wrote to me about the Bill, all 9 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The towns asked for it. The towns will pay for it. That is the usual arrangement and I do not quarrel with it. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. My party will divide the House on the Bill. [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 put the question. The Ayes were challenged and the House divided.

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.