DISQUALIFICATION AVOIDED
Mr Fox Saved By New Legislation (From Our Parliamentary Reporteri WELLINGTON, Sept. 24. The Minister of Housing (Mr Fox) is saved from disqualification as a member of Parliament by a clause in a Finance Bill which has been given a second reading in the House of Representatives. Mr Fox would have been disqualified by reason of having received remuneration as sr member of the Workers’ Compensation Board at any time before October 1 The Prime Minister (Mr Nash), who is Acting-Minister of Finance, who was in charge of the bill, said Mi For had taken every possible safeguard to remain within the law and had received the assurance of the previous AttorneyGeneral that everything was in order. The electoral law had then been changed. The remuneration had been £3OO and that would have been sufficient to disqualify the Minister under the changed law. Mr W. S Goosman (Opposition. Piako): He will be able to sleep at nights now. Mr Nash: He’s been sleeping ever since—in the House.
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Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28700, 25 September 1958, Page 14
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