BUSINESS FOR SESSION

Evening Star, Issue 22891, 24 February 1938, Page 18

BUSINESS FOR SESSION

SPECIAL MEASURES FIRST [Per United Press Associatmw.J WELLINGTON, February 23. 41 The Prime Minister is in charge of the Order Paper, and it is not for me to say whether such a measure will be placed on it for consideration,” said the Attorney-General (the Hon. H. G. R. Mason), when asked whether Parliament at the session to be resumed next week would 'be called on to consider modifying the amendment to the Law Reform Act, 1936. Section 3 (1) of the Law Reform Act, in abolishing the principle that personal action ceases with the death of a person except in regard to three special causes of action, provides that on the death of any person all causes of action subsisting against or vested in him shall survive against or, as the case may be, for the benefit of his estate. The ‘ New Zealand Law Journal ’ stated that it had been informed last October that the Attorney-Gene-ral proposed introducing an amendment and that a Bill had already been drafted. Mr Mason said to-day that the session had been adjourned for consideration of the national superannuation scheme, and whatever other work would be got in was not for him to say. ,