Sentence examples for parliamentary code from inspiring English sources

Icac criticised the current parliamentary code of conduct as "feeble" and "virtually worthless in addressing the problems identified in this investigation".

The Labour MP John Mann says David Laws should not be given another government job until after the next election because he broke the parliamentary code of conduct.

The parliamentary code says: "A member should make a declaration of interest at an early stage in any inquiry to which that interest particularly relates.

The previous parliamentary code of race ethics was pursued by the then Labor senator Margaret Reynolds and the Democrat senator John Woodley in 1996, prompted by concern about the debate about racism that erupted in that year's election campaign.

It's mate-ocracy," says Dean Nelson, the editor of the Scottish edition of the Sunday Times, who first broke the story and alerted Filkin to potential infractions of the parliamentary code of conduct.

The 2009 parliamentary code of conduct, which applied at the time, said MPs are "required to declare relevant indirect interests, for instance those of a spouse or partner, and also non-registrable interests of a financial nature where these are affected by the proceedings in question".

But the parliamentary dress code makes no reference to it, merely saying that female deputies should wear a skirt and jacket.

The courts have dealt increasingly with political disputes over elections, constitutional and parliamentary matters, and Leadership Code cases.

Instead of trying to teach a computer linguistic rules, Mercer and Brown downloaded enormous quantities of dual-language documents — including Canadian parliamentary records — and created code that analyzed the data and detected patterns, enabling predictions of probable translations.

Although the Beer Orders were revoked in 2003, and a parliamentary committee recommended new codes for pubcos a year later, not much has changed, says Mr Luff.Now he hopes a new report on pubcos by the House of Commons' committee on business and enterprise, which he chairs, will trigger remedies for that "cock-up" 20 years ago.

(Much of the devil of the Act is in its details, and as part of the compromise involved in rushing the legislation through, the former Business Secretary, Lord Mandelson, agreed to defer some of those details to Ofcom codes and Parliamentary instruments, all of which require consultation with interested parties).