Debate on The Clockmakers' Registration Act

Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15962

The Speaker: Order. The Minister will move the third reading.

Anja Neitzvaur (Minister of Chronology): I beg to move that the Bill be now read a third time and do pass. The Bill is short, the Ministry is satisfied with it, and the register will not be disturbed by it. I read the material clause to the House. Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. I move.

Anja Wendl (The Capital District; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The Bill is in order. The Clerk has entered it. The Ministry of Chronology has seen it. I do not see what more the House requires. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. 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. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Interruption.]

Kerstin Hallin (The Sudmark; The Reed Party): Mr. Speaker, I speak for the farms. A Bill that does not touch the farms is a Bill I can vote for with an easy mind; a Bill that does had better say so. The members for The Sudmark 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 schedule is plain enough. Offences under this Act are tried before the Court of Chronological Offences. I shall vote against the Bill. [Hear, hear.]

Markus Brenn (The Osmoor; The Workers' Front): Mr. Speaker, There is not a word in the Bill about wages. There never is. I put the word in now, so that it is in the record. The calendar is the calendar. The licence is a small thing to ask of a clockmaker, and the clockmakers have said so themselves. The people of The Osmoor will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. We shall divide the House. [Interruption.]

Felix Neiner (Norrfeld; The Reed Party): Speaker, The members for the reed districts will ask, as they always ask, what the Bill means for the harvest and the causeways. 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. The Bill concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The material provision is this: Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. I ask the House to note it. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated. [Interruption.]

Gregor Barmann (Westgau; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The Continuity Party supports every measure that keeps the record whole and opposes every measure that does not. This one keeps it whole. 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 concerns dates, and the House does not argue about dates. It passes Bills about them. The material provision is this: Administered by the Ministry of Chronology. I ask the House to note it. I shall vote against the Bill. [The Line!]

Uwe Hallin (Westgau; 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. [Hear, hear.]

The Minister thanked the House for a short debate and asked for a short division.

The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.

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

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