Parliamentary Procedure

Money Clauses in Bills

The PRESIDENT (17:22): Honourable members, I draw your attention to money clauses in bills. Earlier today, the council considered in committee the Unclaimed Goods (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill and the Legal Practitioners (Disciplinary Matters and Fidelity Fund) Amendment Bill. Each of these bills contained a money clause: clause 8 of the Unclaimed Goods (Miscellaneous) Amendment Bill and clause 10 of the Legal Practitioners (Disciplinary Matters and Fidelity Fund) Amendment Bill.

Both of these clauses were inadvertently included in the grouping of clauses of the bill in the question 'that the clauses stand as printed'. The two money clauses were printed in erased type. Each of these respective clauses should not have been included in the grouping of clauses but rather, as Chair—I'm bad—I would normally advise the committee that the clause is a money clause and is printed in erased type and no question should be put on such a clause and that the message transmitting the bill to the House of Assembly is required to indicate that this clause is deemed necessary to the bill.

The bills passed this house today and the messages sent to the House of Assembly containing the bills have, as required, drawn to the attention of the House of Assembly the money clauses printed in erased type in each of the bills, which are deemed necessary to the bills.

At 17:23 the council adjourned until Tuesday 28 October 2025 at 14:15.