QUICK FIRE METHODS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 177, 28 July 1944, Page 2

QUICK FIRE METHODS

PASSING OF LEGISLATION i MR. HOLLAND COMPLAKS [ (By Telegraph.—Parliamentary Reporter) j WELLINGTON, this day. I Criticism of the passing of legfcl lation with undue haste was voiced in the House of Representatives L yesterday by the Leader of ttel Opposition, Mr. Holland, who alsoKurged that legislation should tog couched in terms that could beg readily understood by. the. ordinaryl citizen. He was speaking in thef second reading debate of the Finance Bill. "T rlicacrrPA pntirplv with tbf

"I disagree entirely with tk statement that it was quite within the rights of Parliament and i Government if they saw a hole is 1 the law to go back some years afterwards and say, ' You are not goin? to get through that hole,'" he said "I suggest that in a democracy itis our. job to take . time to mate it without holes and if we waslw « correct things we have left in ft® law it js the job of this Parliamer:'. J to correct them by an amendment oi j the law and not to keep everybody in suspense wondering what next tk f Government is going to do." He appealed to the House and the fe Government especially for improved; methods of writing statute law, i method by which people could understand the legislation more readily | should be devised. Now the Finance Act was being used to introduce vita! J and fundamental changes in to I; existing law. The reasons for thai®-' he suggested, w r ere that it was more | convenient for the Government and | there was less chance of the inter-1 tions of the Government beiKK detected. It was designed to cram?ft discussion on half a dozen major p subjects into half an hour's speed g Mr. Holland, suggested that impor-1 tant bills which came before tie I House should be accompanied b; | explanatory memoranda.