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Debate: The Holidays Act (2015)
Topic Started: 24th January 2015 - 09:04 PM (541 Views)
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The following bill, submitted by Achkaerin, will be up for debate until at least 1/27/2015. Have at it.
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The Holidays Act (2015)

An Act to identify days of the year that should not be counted in various processes and mechanisms of the Senate, Citizens Assembly, Judiciary or Constitution of the Independent Order.


Be it enacted by Her Excellency the Grand Chancellor, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

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(1) This Act may be referred to as The Holidays Act (2015).

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(2) For the purposes of this Act 'Holiday' refers to the days identified within section (4)

(3) A Holiday within the context of this Act grants an automatic and universal Leave of Absence to all members of the Independent Order's Elected Government, Senate, Citizen's Assembly, Chancellery, Judiciary or other appointed position.

(4) The following days or time periods are considered Holidays:

(a) Christmas Eve to Boxing Day (inclusive)
(b) Good Friday to Easter Monday (inclusive)
(c) Thanksgiving
(d) Ede
(e) New Years Eve to New Years Day (inclusive)
(f) Other recognized Bank Holidays e.g St. George's Day

(5) The days and time periods identified in section (4) shall not count as days in respect of:

(a) Monitoring the activity of Senators, Ministers, Clerk of the Assembly or any other appointed position
(b) Debating and voting time periods in the Senate or Citizen's Assembly
(c) Any other process of the legislature
(d) Electoral campaigning
(e) Election voting periods

(6) The days and time periods identified in section (4) shall not count as days in respect of the Constitution of the Independent Order.

(7) Where the processes of section (5) conflict with the days identified in section (4) the process is to be delayed until after the time period or if the process is already in motion suspended and recommenced after the time period (e.g. If legislation is up for debate and the last day of debate would be Christmas Eve then the 27th of December becomes the third day of debate since that is the first day following the time period of Christmas Eve to Boxing Day).
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Mr Speaker,

As this act affects the Chancellory's ability to carry out its functions, and may have a profound effect on the constitution, I seek permission to contribute to this debate.
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Permission granted.
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Personally I feel this is uneccessary it will be difficult to keep track of and with time zones etc impractical. I believe the current provision for LOA covers the basis with this. We also have the issue that bank holidays vary nation to nation, Eid is on variable dates and Muslims don't agree with the date at times and we'd need to include every religious festival to be fair. Therefore I believe this is unworkable....... Sorry Achkarein I get your idea, I just think LOA covers us.
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Following consultation with the Grand Chancellor, I would like to state that should this bill, in its current form, not receive 66% of the votes required, the Chancellory will withhold assent.

This position has been reached for a number of reasons, some of which have been mentioned. Though to list a few:
- This will be a nightmare to organise. Assuming Christmas Day, do we count the LoA as being 00:00 to 23:59 GMT? Or 00:00 UTC+12 to 23:59 UTC-12?
- The list is very religious-based, well specifically, Christian based. It takes into account holidays (I'm looking at you, Easter) that lack the cultural relevance it may have had previously. Even in the UK we make a bigger deal out of Chinese New Year than we do Easter (fortune chocolates anyone?).
- Also 'national' days (such as Thanksgiving, St George's Day, Independence Day, Canada, Day, etc.) are very frequent, yet they also usually last a day – so a site-wide leave of absence isn't really required.
- Last Christmas (I gave you my heart), the Senate passed a motion 'delaying' the passage of a bill to account for Christmas. This year (to save me from tears), the Senate can do the same.

However, the Chancellory is open to the suggestion that should a Premier or Senate election fall on Christmas Day, due to its cultural significance, then a 24 hour extension to the election (on whichever stage 25 December falls on to) should be granted without affecting the future schedule.
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Fixed days such as Christmas Eve through to Boxing Day are workable since they don't vary- also taking religion out of the equation for the moment it's something recognized and celebrated so should be accounted for. Obviously I take the point with regards to Easter and bank holidays since they roam around and to include Easter then means you have to include other religious festivals (and since we're not sure on the religious demographic of the region that's probably not a good idea.)

So amend the Act to recognize specific fixed periods of time.

And for the record the LOA does not cover the entire government for this situation unless you expect every Senator, Minister and Assembly member to barrage the LOA topic on the 23rd of December with what should already be known specifically that they're not going to be around for a couple of days- this Act's intention is to simply say that certain time periods don't count towards vacancies and such. Also I don't think it's that unworkable or unreasonable.

For example in the previous term of government this Act would have accounted for five days (Christmas Eve-Boxing Day and New Years Eve- New Years Day) Now I'm not saying that this Act adds days to that 45 what I'm saying is that there are certain things which logically shouldn't happen on those days (due to the likely diminished activity any way).

And on a final jesting note- Mr Vice Chancellor if you're going to condition a vote try to make it much less obvious (last I checked you had the right to refuse assent unless an Act reached 75% in which case the signature is not needed- and as it stands this isn't a constimendment) ;)



Edited by Achkaerin, 26th January 2015 - 05:05 PM.
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To amend my previous statement (thanks Ach for pointing out I'd got the percentage wrong :P ): Should this bill, in its current form, not receive 75% of the votes required to bypass the Grand Chancellor, the Chancellory will withhold assent.

There is little need for people to LoA if they are only away for 1-2 days over Christmas. Though to extend the end of my previous post: the Chancellory is open to suggestions to amend the constitution to allow Senate/Premier elections to be held earlier of it falls on Christmas Eve/Day/Boxing Day, or to be delayed until after Christmas.
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All right. To get this out of the way and off the floor once and for all, I move that we take this to a vote.
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(I can guess where this is going) Seconded, I also thank CGJ for opening the door for at least the idea to in some way continue when if this fails to pass.

Also since with a senate of 7 each senator is worth 14.2% of the vote I will make it known that two nay's will in view of the condition presented by the Chancellery cause this Bill to fall.
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With four seconds, the motion carries. Moving to vote.
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