Referendum (One Vote One Value) Bill

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading.

(Continued from 28 September 2017.)

The Hon. R.I. LUCAS (17:38): Members will be delighted that I will speak mercifully briefly on the cognate bill, the Referendum (One Vote One Value) Bill. As I indicated, in addressing the companion bill, I spoke at length on both. This is the referendum bill and it is an attached bill. The views I expressed in the previous second reading apply equally to this bill. All this bill does is to provide that if the first bill is passed by the parliament, it then has to go to a referendum, so the views that I have expressed in terms of opposition to the first bill equally relate to this bill.

Debate adjourned on motion of Hon. J.E. Hanson.