Sentences with phrase «of referendum bill»

For instance, if there is no dissent during the passage of the referendum Bill through both houses of parliament, only a «Yes» case needs to be prepared.

approval of a referendum bill, containing the proposed amendment, by an absolute majority in each house of the federal parliament; and then

Instead, the Baron / Bone text simply expresses regret at the lack of a referendum bill - and therefore, all of the above groups can support it.

Prime minister, angered by Labour and Lib Dem peers» defeat of referendum bill, lays plans to overrule the House of Lords

In her speech in Glasgow, Sturgeon said publication of a referendum bill was designed to give Scots the opportunity to vote on independence before the UK departs from the EU.

Not exact matches

In France, Marine Le Pen of the anti-immigration National Front is calling for a French exit, or «Frexit,» referendum (memorably billing herself «Madame Frexit»).

On June 30, the last day the old provincial sales tax remained in effect, a coalition fronted by former Social Credit premier Bill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenBill Vander Zalm presented a petition of 557,383 valid signatures to the province's chief electoral officer, which forces a bill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referenbill abolishing the HST to be either voted on in the legislature or put to a referendum.

Sponsors inserted in the laws a provision allocating $ 1 million to implement the laws, a shrewd way to make it harder to overturn the laws by referendum because Michigan's constitution bars challenges of spending bills.

Wine in supermarkets bill advancing in House The House committee that killed last year's version of a bill to allow wine sales in Tennessee grocery stores on Tuesday overwhelmingly voted in favor of giving cities the ability to hold referendums on the proposal...

Recently, New Jersey State Senator David Friedland introduced a bill calling for the establishment of frontons in Jersey City, Camden and Long Branch, even though last year New Jersey voters turned down jai alai in a referendum.

After deciding not to hold the community center referendum, the Park District Board also discarded the idea of asking the voters if they would be willing to foot the bill for about $ 150,000 in maintenance and repairs at the parks.

It's «a bill to make provision for the holding of a referendum in the United Kingdom on the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union».

As things stand Labour, which campaigned at the election on holding a referendum on AV, is not going to support the bill because of what it sees as gerrymandering.

It thus fell to the Scottish government to place a referendum bill before the Scottish parliament, which the agreement stipulated ought to «meet the highest standards of fairness, transparency and propriety, informed by consultation and independent expert advice».

Wharton's bill is to be commended because it leaves open the possibility of a referendum before that date, says Adam Afriyie.

Add the EU referendum bill into the mix, and suddenly it becomes one of judgement on policy, too.

The bill in question was proposed by Tory John Stevenson, and asked «that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act 1983 to disenfranchise all residents of Scotland eligible to vote in any United Kingdom General Election held after 18 September 2014 in the event of a positive vote in the Scottish Independence referendum; and for connected purposes.&rabill in question was proposed by Tory John Stevenson, and asked «that leave be given to bring in a Bill to amend the Representation of the People Act 1983 to disenfranchise all residents of Scotland eligible to vote in any United Kingdom General Election held after 18 September 2014 in the event of a positive vote in the Scottish Independence referendum; and for connected purposes.&raBill to amend the Representation of the People Act 1983 to disenfranchise all residents of Scotland eligible to vote in any United Kingdom General Election held after 18 September 2014 in the event of a positive vote in the Scottish Independence referendum; and for connected purposes.»

Nicola Sturgeon's announcement of a new bill may not lead to a second independence referendum.

Yes, those in the hall will have heard the announcement of a second referendum bill but they may have missed the bigger picture.

«I think it's important that during the passege of this bill we ensure the bill is properly scrutinised, and is put to the test of people in this country in a referendum».

The constitutional bill is firmly anchored in the will of the people because (a) the bill fully reflects the declaration of the 2010 National Assembly at which every Icelander 18 years or older had an equal chance of being invited to take a seat and (b) it was approved by 2/3 of the voters in a national referendum against the wishes of much of the discredited political class.

Many of those backing eurosceptic John Baron's amendment to the Queen's Speech regretting the lack of an EU referendum bill believe the UK will not be able to secure any agreement from European leaders on a fresh set of terms for British membership - making Cameron's strategy of attempting to seek agreement unrealistic.

Dozens of opposition leaders, including influential members of parliament were imprisoned before the bill that underlies and enables this referendum was introduced, and thus unable to vote or take part in the discussion; for example a dozen MPs from the HDP, including the entire party leadership are currently in prison.

On the flip - side, hundreds of independent media outlets were closed in the run - up to the introduction of the bill and the subsequent campaign for the referendum.

Fourth, Parliament held a national referendum on the bill in 2012 where the bill was accepted by 67 % of the voters and its individual key provisions were approved by 67 % to 83 % of the voters.

The bill was now ready for a vote in Parliament to ratify the outcome of the 2012 referendum.

[15]: 17 Lord Wallace, Advocate General for Scotland, said in January 2012 that holding a referendum concerning the constitution would be outside the legislative power of the Scottish Parliament [23][39] and that private individuals could challenge a Scottish Parliament referendum bill.

The failed EU referendum bill was a «bit of Valium designed to calm down» Eurosceptic Conservatives, a Labour peer has claimed.

Councils must call a local referendum to get the approval of voters if they want to put bills up by more than 2 per cent, under rules set by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles.»

He has been an outspoken critic of plans to leave the European Union after the June 2016 referendum and pledged to «relentlessly oppose» the EU withdrawal bill in the Lords.

List of 52 MPs who rebelled over EU referendum motion and second reading of House of Lords reform bill

As a result he has put Labour and the Liberal Democrats on the spot - they now will have to say whether they do support the idea of a referendum on the European Union and Britain's membership of it when a bill comes back to Parliament.

It culminated in a public consultation on a draft Referendum Bill which set out proposals for a referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish PReferendum Bill which set out proposals for a referendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Preferendum on extending the powers of the Scottish Parliament.

«But ultimately it'll be up to the voters of the school district because the school board, if this bill is passed, will allow for them to decide to go to a referendum to then have a ward system,» Carlucci says.

A separate European Union bill did find its way into the Queen's Speech yesterday, with proposals ensuring any future transfer of powers to the European Union requires a referendum.

In the UK, the issue of Scottish independence has again become topical, as the Scottish National Party (SNP) have recently published a draft referendum bill (on the 20th of October 2016).

The referendum bill is a very straightforward piece of legislation.

If we had the new constitution, actually the nation could stop a dangerous bill like this [article 65 gives the right for 10 % of the population to hold a binding national referendum on a law passed by the parliament].

The other option is to propose a bill to have the Act nevertheless enter into force: For the results of an advisory referendum are not binding.

That's why, as MPs start the second reading of the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Bill on 6 September, I am tabling an amendment that would rewrite the referendum question to allow people to choose from a wider range of voting systems, including properly proportional options such as the additional member system (used in elections for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Greater London Assembly) and the single transferable vote (used in Northern Ireland).

With speculation at various points that the Government would struggle to get the Bill through as it wished - with MPs wanting to change the referendum date, impose those thresholds or be less prescriptive about the electorate quotas of the new constituencies - the whips will doubtless be quietly pleased about it attaining a majority of 57.

Yesterday, in alliance with pro-EU Conservatives, Liberal Democrat peers helped amend the European Union Bill to ensure that the referendum lock expired at the end of this parliament.

The looming votes on James Wharton's Private Member's Bill for an EU referendum are likely to present the last opportunity ahead of the general election for MPs to put on record whether they support giving people a say on Britain's membership of the EU.

But as it happens they did win the election, and George Osborne is spending much of this parliament talking about his so - called fiscal charter, which has replaced the referendum bill on the Mickey Mouse shelf.

It simply calls on the Government to agree that we should insert in the Bill that the result of the referendum will not pass if less than 40 % vote in it.

«The reason why we have not specified a threshold in the Bill is, as a number of hon. Members said, that we want to respect the will of the people who vote in the referendum, without any qualifications... People may choose to abstain, but the amendment would create an incentive for people who favour a no vote to abstain.

The fiscal charter makes no more sense than the EU referendum bill but it has the disadvantage of being economically quite dangerous.

They included arch-Brexiteer Bill Cash who accused Remain - voting MPs of «constantly and disingenuously stating their acceptance of the result of the referendum» and then trying to «mitigate or overturn» the result.

The book is billed by publisher William Collins as the inside story of how the referendum on the European Union brought about Brexit «and sank Britain's political class».

Like the EU referendum bill, or Theresa May's attacks on imaginary health tourists, or Iain Duncan Smith's insistence on the effectiveness of his welfare reforms, this is another example of post-reality governance: policy based not on the real world, but on an imaginary one of PR messaging in which the sole purpose is stay in power by finding lines of public opinion and putting the opposition on the wrong side of them.