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Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Thursday 27 January 2011

 

Committee of the whole House


 

Scotland Bill

 

Abolition of regional members of Scottish Parliament

 

John Robertson

 

Mr Michael McCann

 

Graeme Morrice

 

Mr Brian H. Donohoe

 

NC1

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Scotland Act 1998 is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In section 1—

 

(a)    

in subsection (2) “Two members” is substituted for “One member”; and

 

at the end there is inserted “save for those identified in paragraph 1(a) to

 

(c) of Schedule 1, each of which shall return one member,”;

 

(b)    

subsection (3) is omitted.

 

(3)    

In section 5, subsections (1) and (3) to (9) are omitted.

 

(4)    

Sections 6, 7, 8 and 10 are omitted.

 

(5)    

In section 11, subsection (2) is substituted by—

 

“(2)    

A person is not entitled to vote as an elector in more than one

 

constituency at a general election, and may cast no more than two votes

 

at a poll for the return of constituency members.”.

 

(6)    

In section 12—

 

(a)    

in subsection (2), paragraphs (e) and (f) are omitted;

 

(b)    

subsection (3) is omitted;

 

(c)    

after subsection (4) the following subsection is inserted—

 

“(4A)    

The provision to be made under subsection (1) must include

 

provision for—

 

(a)    

each elector to cast one or two votes of equal value, with

 

no more than one vote to be given to any one candidate,

 

in constituencies returning two members;


 
 

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(b)    

the two candidates with the most valid votes to be

 

elected in such constituencies.”.

 

(7)    

In Schedule 1—

 

(a)    

for paragraph 1 there is substituted—

 

“(1)    

The constituencies are—

 

(a)    

the Orkney Islands,

 

(b)    

the Shetland Islands

 

(c)    

the Western Isles [Na h-Eileanan An Iar], and

 

(d)    

the parliamentary constituencies in Scotland at the time

 

of an ordinary or extraordinary general election for the

 

Scottish Parliament, except the constituencies of Orkney

 

and Shetland and Na h-Eileanan An Iar”;

 

(b)    

paragraphs 3 to 14 are omitted.’.

 

Regional members of the Scottish Parliament

 

John Robertson

 

Mr Michael McCann

 

Graeme Morrice

 

Mr Brian H. Donohoe

 

NC2

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Scotland Act 1998 is amended as follows.

 

(2)    

In section 81, after subsection (2), there is inserted—

 

“(2A)    

No provision shall be made under subsection (2) for any allowances for

 

representative work in any constituency or region by a regional member

 

in a registered political party or a group of such regional members; and

 

no allowances may be made for offices or staff or related expenses

 

incurred by such members other than in connection with or at the

 

Parliament’s place of meeting or in connection with a committee

 

meeting.

 

(2B)    

Any allowances paid to regional members in a registered political party

 

shall be founded on the assumption that they are representatives of that

 

party from the relevant region and not from any single constituency.”.

 

(3)    

In Schedule 3, after paragraph 2 , there is inserted—

 

“2A      

The standing orders shall include provision for withdrawing from a

 

regional member in a registered political party any or all of his rights

 

and privileges as a member, including any allowances, if he is found

 

to have purported to act, or has held himself out, as a constituency

 

member for any single constituency or for a group of constituencies

 

other than the region from which he was elected.”’.

 


 
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