RESIGNATION OF SPEAKER (Announcement by Mr Speaker)

Mr Speaker: As Honourable Members are aware, I am Speaker of this Assembly by virtue of the provisions of Section 110 of the Singapore (Constitution) Order in Council, 1958, and my term of office will expire on June the 2nd of this year, leaving a vacancy in that office as from June the 3rd.

June the 3rd, however, is National Day and is a holiday, and consequently it would not be convenient for the Assembly to meet on that day to fill that vacancy.

I therefore intend to resign my office on Wednesday, the 1st of June, so that honourable Members may, if they so desire, sit on that day for the purpose of the election of a person to fill the office of Speaker left vacant by reason of my resignation.