Speaker Scholes continued in the Chair for the
remainder of the sitting under the new Government, 24 and remained as «deemed» Presiding Officer, under the Presiding Officers Act, until Speaker Snedden, who was a member
of the governing coalition parties, was elected when the
next Parliament met on 17 February 1976.25
The
remainder — the Prisons and Courts Bill, the Local Government Finance Bill and the Vehicle Technology and Aviation Bill — have little prospect
of making it through in time and will likely have to be restarted in the
next Parliament.