Debate on The Chronological Records (Amendment) Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15938

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

Anja Neitzvaur (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. I read the material clause to the House. Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. The House will note that the Bill is an amending Bill; the principal Act, The Chronological Records (Amendment) Act, is not otherwise touched. I commend the Bill to the House.

Anja Wendl (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Speaker, Nothing in the Bill disturbs the record. The Continuity Party asks only that the register be kept as it has always been kept. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 3 of them, and they were against it until they read it. I shall vote against the Bill. [Shame.]

Kerstin Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, The land pays for everything in the end. The Reed Party will vote as the land would vote if it could. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The members for The Sudmark have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. My party will divide the House on the Bill.

Markus Brenn (The Osmoor; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, The Front supports the Bill where it helps the families of the Line and opposes it where it charges them. The members for The Osmoor have met and are of one mind on the Bill, which does not happen often. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The clause is short and I shall not read it. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it. [Shame.]

Felix Neiner (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I ask the Minister one thing: does the Bill send an officer out to the farms, and if it does, who feeds him? The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. I sit for Norrfeld. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Hear, hear.]

Gregor Barmann (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Speaker, I have read the Bill for what it does to the record, which is the only reading that matters, and it does nothing to the record. I sit for Westgau. The clerks there are few and the roads are long, and any officer the Bill appoints will spend a week finding the houses. I have no observation on the reckoning of years, which is the Ministry's business and not mine. The Bill says so in terms: Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. The Bill should pass and I shall vote for it.

Otto Brenn (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Speaker, The member opposite used the word 'irregular'. I have the Bill here and I have the register here and I find nothing irregular in either. I sit down. [Interruption.]

The Minister replied briefly. The fee was as printed; the officer was as printed; the House had the Bill and could read it.

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 tellers reported the numbers to the Chair. The Speaker declared the Bill passed.

The House adjourned shortly after noon.