The Joint Parliamentary Service Committee
5 The Joint Parliamentary Service Committee
There shall be a committee entitled the Joint Parliamentary
Service Committee.
The Committee—
shall be a body corporate with perpetual succession and a common seal; and
shall be capable in its corporate name of acquiring, holding, dealing with and disposing of real and personal property; and
shall be capable of acquiring or incurring any other rights or liabilities, and of suing and being sued; and
shall have the powers, authorities, duties and functions prescribed by or under this Act.
The Committee shall consist of the following members:
the President of the Legislative Council; and
the Speaker of the House of Assembly; and
two members of the Legislative Council appointed by the Legislative
Council, of whom one shall be appointed from the group led by the Leader of the
Government and one appointed from the group led by the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative Council; and
two members of the House of Assembly appointed by the House of
Assembly, of whom one shall be appointed from the group led by the Premier and one appointed from the group led by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly.
Alternate members of the Committee shall be appointed as follows:
the Legislative Council—
shall appoint a member of the Legislative Council to be the alternate member of the Committee to the President; and
upon appointing a member of the Committee under subsection (3)(c), shall appoint another member of the
Legislative Council (from the same group) to be an alternate member of the
Committee to that member; and
the House of Assembly—
shall appoint a member of the House of Assembly to be the alternate member of the Committee to the Speaker; and
upon appointing a member of the Committee under subsection (3)(d), shall appoint another member of the
House of Assembly (from the same group) to be an alternate member of the
Committee to that member.
An alternate member of the Committee may act as a member of the
Committee in the absence of the member in respect of whom the alternate member has been appointed.
A member appointed by the Legislative Council or the House of
Assembly shall, subject to any resolution to the contrary by the appropriate
House of Parliament, hold office until the first day that Parliament sits following the next general election of members of the House of Assembly and shall then (assuming that the member remains a member of the Parliament) be eligible for re-appointment.
Four members of the Committee shall constitute a quorum of the
Committee, of whom—
at least two must be members of the Legislative Council, one being a member of the group led by the Leader of the Government and one being a member of the group led by the Leader of the Opposition in the Legislative
Council (and for the purposes of this paragraph the President of the
Legislative Council may be regarded as being a member of a group);
and
at least two must be members of the House of Assembly, one being a member of the group led by the Premier and one being a member of the group led by the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Assembly (and for the purposes of this paragraph the Speaker of the House of Assembly may be regarded as being a member of a group).
Each member of the Committee who is present at a meeting of the
Committee shall be entitled to one vote on any question that arises for decision by the Committee (and the chairman of the Committee shall not have a second or casting vote).
Subject to this Act, a decision supported by a majority of the votes cast by the members present at a meeting of the Committee shall be a decision of the Committee.
Subject to subsection (11), the Committee shall, on the commencement of this section, be chaired first by the most senior Presiding
Officer, then by the other Presiding Officer, and so on in alternation, each acting for an alternate calendar year.
Subsection (10) is subject to the following qualifications:
if on the commencement of this section both Presiding Officers have held office for the same period, the Committee shall be chaired first by the
President of the Legislative Council;
the Presiding Officer first appointed as the chairman of the
Committee in accordance with subsection (10) shall continue as chairman until the thirty-first day of December, 1986.
In the absence of the chairman the other Presiding Officer shall chair a meeting of the Committee or, in the absence of the chairman and the other Presiding Officer, the members present shall decide who is to chair the meeting.
The Committee may, if it thinks fit, appoint sub-committees to deal with any matter or class of matters relevant to the performance of its functions under this Act.
Subject to this Act, the procedures of the Committee and any sub-committee shall be as determined by the
Committee.
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