PARLIAMENTARY MEMBERSHIP BILL

Parliament of Singapore · 25 July 1984 · 5th Parliament

Official Report, 25 July 1984, Vol 44, Issue 5 · Open in the reader (summaries, search, filters)

S Jayakumar

Order for Second Reading read. 6.34 pm

The Minister for Labour and Second Minister for Law and Home Affairs (Prof. S. Jayakumar): Mr Deputy Speaker, Sir, I beg to move, "That the Order for the Second Reading of the Bill be discharged and the Bill be withdrawn."

Sir, in view of the amendment to Article 39 (1) of the Constitution which this House has approved whereby the number of elected constituency MPs will be equal to the number of constituencies, the present Bill becomes redundant and superfluous.

Sir, I beg to move.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That the Order for the Second Reading of the Bill be discharged and the Bill be withdrawn.

Source: Singapore Parliament Official Report (Hansard) for 25 July 1984. Republished on SGParliament.