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Select Committee on Constitutional Amendment Bills (18th Parliament)

Members

Hon Aloysius Amwano MP, Chairman
Hon Baron Waqa MP, Deputy Chairman
Hon Dr Kieren Keke MP
Hon Freddie Pitcher MP
Hon Roland Kun MP
Hon Mathew Batsiua MP
Hon Godfrey Thoma MP
Hon Dominic Tabuna MP
Hon Landon Deireragea MP

 

Establishment

The Select Committee on Constitutional Amendment Bills was established by a resolution of Parliament passed on 18 December 2008.

 

Work of Committee

The Select Committee on Constitutional Amendment Bills was a Committee made up of nine members of Parliament, and was created by a resolution of Parliament. The work of the Committee was part of step 5 of the Constitutional Review Process.


The Committee was given the task of looking at all the material from the constitutional review process so far, and recommending to Parliament whether anything in the constitutional amendment bills should be changed.


The Committee was created in December 2008 and it did its work in January, February and March 2009. On 10th March 2009 the Committee presented its report to Parliament. The Report explains the work of the Committee, and the recommendations of the Committee. The Committee has now fulfilled its terms of reference and completed its work.

 

The reason that Parliament established the Select Committee on Constitutional Amendment Bills, when Parliament already has a Standing Committee on Constitutional Review (the 'CRC'), is that bills cannot be referred to a Standing Committee, but only to a Select Committee.


The Report and recommendations of the Select Committee on Constitutional Amendment Bills were considered by the Committee of the Whole House in June 2009, and following the Report of the COTW on the Constitutional Amendment Bills as amended, Parliament unanimously passed the two constitutional amendment bills on 21 August 2009. For more information on the passage of the bills, see the Constitutional Review Process.

 

Committee of the Whole House

The Committee of the Whole House comprises  every Member of Parliament, sitting as a Committee to consider the details of a  Bill, or to consider a specific task assigned to it by a resolution of the  House. Standing Order 162 provides that after adoption of the motion for the  second reading of a Bill, the House must resolve itself into a Committee of the  Whole for consideration of the Bill unless a decision is taken to refer the  Bill to a Select Committee or the House grants leave to proceed directly to the  third reading. In practice, leave is usually granted for the third reading to proceed.  In the case of the constitutional amendment bills however, the House resolved  itself into the Committee of the Whole to consider the Bills in detail and to  amend the Bills. The Reports of the Committee of the Whole on the constitutional amendment bills are listed in Links & Resources.