States' Assembly & Constitution Committee - P.2019/33
The States are asked to decide:-
Whether, after consideration of the policy letter entitled "Amendments to provisions relating to special meetings in the Rules of Procedure of the States of Deliberation and their Committees" dated 16th April, 2019, they are of the opinion:-
1. That the Rules of Procedure of the States of Deliberation and their Committees should be amended with immediate effect to reads as follows:
(a) In Rules 1.(2) and 3.(13), immediately after "the annual Budget of the States" insert "and the policy letter of the Committee for Employment & Social Security on the uprating of non-contributory benefits",
(b) for Rule 3.(11)(e), substitute:
"(e) any proposals in the annual policy letter of the Committee for Employment & Social Security concerning contributory benefit and contribution rates,",
(c) for Rule 9.(3) substitute:
"(3) The only business at a special Meeting shall be:
1. the Annual Budget of the States and the policy letter of the Committee for Employment & Social Security on the uprating of non-contributory benefits; or
2. the States' Accounts and the Policy & Resource Plan,
as the case may be.",
(d) in Rule 30.(1), for the definition of "special Meeting" substitute:
"special Meeting" means any Meeting of the States convened to consider the Annual Budget of the States and the policy letter of the Committee for Employment & Social Security on the uprating of non-contributory benefits or the States' Accounts and the Policy & Resource Plan;
(e) In Schedule 1, for the entry in the third column relating to 5th November (Tuesday) 2019 substitute "(Budget and uprating of non-contributory benefits Meeting only)"".
The above Propositions have been submitted to Her Majesty's Procureur for advice on any legal or constitutional implications.
