The Assembly of Schwartzistan · Official report · Session of 1974
Debate on An Act for the Better Inspection of Examinations
In the Chair
Gisela Fenn, Speaker of the AssemblyMoving the Bill
Felix Moor, Minister of EducationThe official report of the sitting as printed by the Clerk of the Assembly. The bill and its stages.
The Speaker took the Chair at half past two. Prayers. The Clerk read the Orders of the Day. The Order of the Day for the third reading of the Bill entitled An Act for the Better Inspection of Examinations was read.
Official report · Assembly of SchwartzistanSession 1974 · col. 15976
Saturday 31 August 1974
The Speaker: Order. The Minister will move the third reading.
Felix Moor (Minister of Education): I move the third reading. I am told the Bill is a small one. It is. Most Bills that concern children are. I ask the House to pass it.
Klaus Pfeil (The Capital District; The Assembly Union): Mr. Speaker, The Union has no quarrel with the purpose of the Bill; its quarrel is with the fee, and with the officer who will collect it. My constituents in The Capital District wrote to me about the Bill, all 4 of them, and they were against it until they read it. The Ministry's textbooks are the Ministry's and I have no observation to make on their contents. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I cannot vote for the Bill as it stands and I shall not. [Interruption.]
Otto Brenn (Norrfeld; The Continuity Party): Mr. Speaker, The people of Norrfeld will ask what it costs them, and I should like to be able to tell them. Order and record. That is the whole of my party's programme and I do not apologise for its shortness. I have the Bill before me and the House has it before it. I am for the schoolmasters, who are underpaid, and for the Bill, which does not pay them. I oppose the third reading.
Andrea Honzel (Norrfeld; The Assembly Union): 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 schools will do what the Bill says, as they do what every Bill says, and the children will not notice. In Norrfeld, which I have the honour to sit for, the Bill will be read at the market cross and understood by half. I support the Bill, with the reservation I have stated.
The Minister, in reply, said that the points raised were answered in the printed Bill and that the Ministry would consider the rest.
The question being put, a division was called for, and the members went to the lobbies.
Division
| Ayes | 46 |
| Noes | 15 |
The Speaker: The Ayes have it. The Bill is passed and will go to the Grand Chancellor for assent.
The House proceeded to other business.
The Bill as passed
- Passed by the Assembly by 46 votes to 15.
- Applies to children between 6 and 12.