Sentence examples for legislation assembly from inspiring English sources
The legislation, Assembly Bill 1217, has already passed the State Assembly and was passed out of the State Senate's appropriations committee on Friday.
In a column for Guardian Australia, Forster pens a rousing public defence of the ACT's same-sex marriage legislation which cleared the legislative assembly on Tuesday – legislation the Abbott government will fight in the belief that it is unconstitutional.
In March 2014, the ACT legislative assembly unanimously passed legislation that would allow gender‑diverse people to change the gender on their birth certificates, which includes the third gender category of X.
On Tuesday, the Australian Capital Territory's legislative assembly became the first parliament in Australia to pass legislation allowing same-sex couples to marry.
Parliament must enact supporting legislation of the assembly's decisions on changing the Constitution.
Under the rules of the Stormont assembly, legislation cannot pass if the representatives of one community refuse to support a new bill, which ensures no one section of the divided populace can impose laws on the other.
But flags, it appears, are no administrative matter.In the legislation creating that assembly, government lawyers had given the new executive the power to determine which flags were to fly on specified days above government buildings in the province.
Under the legislation governing the assembly it states that if after a six-week period the post of first minister and deputy first minister had not been filled then the secretary of state should propose a date for new assembly elections.
It is partly an attempt to de-politicise a deeply political issue, but it could recommend to the minister that the principle of selection should be abandoned.Such a conclusion would give Mr McGuinness plenty of ammunition if he were to try and steer the necessary legislation through the assembly.
Opposition parties are threatening to block Welsh assembly legislation unless ministers accept rules to restrain council chief executives' salaries.
The first minister concedes that Labour won't get legislation through this assembly to force a reduction in councils.
