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“Priority” Bills to be tabled shortly – Dr. Luncheon
Several Bills are soon to be tabled in Parliament in keeping with the administration’s commitment to improve the justice and social sectors by ensuring that adequate legislation are available to protect the rights of Guyana’s citizens.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat and Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon, at his weekly post-Cabinet media briefing yesterday, informed that Cabinet has reviewed its Parliamentary Legislative Programme which is being considered for enactment during the 9th Parliament.
He stated that Cabinet recognised that there are the last two Children’s Bills (the Child Care and Development Services Bill and the Custody, Contact, Guardianship and Maintenance Bill) will are to be tabled shortly, after which they are expected to be sent to the Parliamentary Special Select Committee.
These Bills are among five pieces of legislation which include the Protection of Children’s Bill, the Status of the Children’s Bill and the Adoption of the Children’s Bill which have already been passed by the National Assembly.
Dr. Luncheon noted that Cabinet has kept under “its active scrutiny and its examination of the progress” the following list of the priority Bills which are anticipated to be tabled with the completion of its established procedures.
These include the Legal Practitioners Bill, the Juvenile Offences Bill, the Sexual Offences Bill, the Electronic Transactions Bill, the New Building Society Amendments Bill and the Freedom of Information (Access to Information) Bill.
Dr. Luncheon also stated that Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy will be tabled by motion at today’s sitting of the National Assembly.
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