PROSPECTIVE LEGISLATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume LIII, Issue 5538, 21 July 1920, Page 5

PROSPECTIVE LEGISLATION.

GOVERNMENT BILLS FOR THIS WEEK.

CONTENTIOUS MEASURE IN THE STANDARD TIME BILL.

WELLINGTON. July 19. The Government is under-the necessity of replenishing the Order Paper for the coming week if the House is to he kept busy. On the first day of the sitting it is probable that a number of Government bills will be produced, most of them Appropriation measures to come down by Governor’s Message. Among them will probably be: The War Regulations Continuance Bill ; the Judicature Amendment Bill; the Magistrates Salaries Bill; the Expiring Laws Continuance Bill and the Civil List No. 2 Bill. The titles of these hills indicate what business they will entail for the House. It is understood that the Civil List No. 2 Bill will remove the objectionable feature of the first bill., the exemption of salaries provided for in the Civil List including the salaries of Members of Parliament, Ministers of the Crown and Judges of the Supreme Court from income tax. When this Bill comes up for •consideration by the House there should be an interesting discussion ■on it, but if it comes down -on Tuesday it. should not. in the •ordinary course of business, be discussed until Friday, the intervening days being resreved for business other than that introduced by the Government. It is first possible that theStandard Time Bill will be debated this week, but the chances are that it will not. It is already recognised that this will be a highly • contentions measure.—Special to Times.