Speeches by E. Grant Gibbons

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, I am introducing the following Bill for its first reading so that it may be placed on the Order Paper for the next day of meeting: Companies and Limited Liability Company Amendment Act 2017. Thank you, Mr. Speaker.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker, with the Governor’s recommendation, and in accordance with section 36(3) of the Bermuda Constitution, I move that the Bill entitled the America’s Cup Amendment (No. 2) Act 2016 be now read the second time.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, the purpose of the Bill before the House today is to make various amendments to the America’s Cup Act 2015 (otherwise known as “the principal Act”). The amendments include revised Customs Duty provisions for end use for goods imported for the capital development projects at the Royal Naval Dockyard, provisions for alcohol purchase and …

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker , and I thank Honourable Member s for their comments. Let me see if I can tackle a few of these. And I will start with the broader comments about essentially if we get this right. I think it is fair to say that certainly we in the Government, I do not believe, have oversold this …

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In fact, one of the concerns we have is we are trying to get the message out that we are not fully booked at this particular point because I think some people have been a bit scared off by the fact that we may be. So I think we are trying to get that communication done properly. One of the …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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I am sorry, Mr. Speaker . I am sorry, Mr. Speaker. I think black Berm udians are included in the broader community the last time I looked. If the Honourable Member would say, How do we include the black community? I think that is part of the effort as well. So I do not think anybody is trying to exclude …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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—Bermudians of any stripe and colour, is the Honourable Member happy with that? Good?

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Okay. You cannot please all the people all the time, Mr. Speaker . [Inaudible i nterjection]

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Okay, well, I am sure everybody will be complaining one way or anot her. Anyway, I think that the issue is . . . Denise Riviere was out there earlier today, we are trying to make a real effort to . . . working with the Bermuda Economic Development Corporation and the ACBDA to make sure, through meetings, advice, consultation …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Sure. Thank you, Mr. Speaker . I move that the Bill be now committed.

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I also am going to have an amendment when we get to clause 6, but in the meantime I would like to move clauses 1 through 5.

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you. Madam Chairman, as I think we said earlier, this Bill seeks to make a number of amendments to the America’s Cup Act 2015. Clause 1 contains the citation. Clause 2 defines “Dockyard” by reference to the area outlined in red on the plan to be inserted as Schedule 3 to the principal Act. This definition is used in …

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I do not have that figure. This would be duty relief that would be normally applied to any Gover nment infrastructure project. So, we have not been keeping specific track of it. My sense would be, if you looked at the capital spending, and we can probably have a look at that, we would probably get …

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Yes, thank you, Madam Chairman. I now move clauses 1 through 5 as printed.

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I will move clause 6 specifically because I have an amendment that I wish to make within that —

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Why do I not go ahead with clause 6 anyway in the meantime and then we can do the amendment at the end of that?

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Does that make sense?

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Okay. So clause 6 inserts new section 13A into the principal Act. This section introduces a new permit tax for visiting vessels (as defined in the amendment) arriving in Bermuda during the relevant period and in respect of which application must be made for either a transient permit (for visits not exceeding five days), a cruising permit (for longer visits) …

3 Feb 2017 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I am moving in clause 6 that the America’s Cup Bill 2017 be amended as follows: So, in clause 6, in new section 13A to be i nserted into the principal Act, first of all, in subsection (9) a t the end we are going to insert “or participating vessels.” And then after subsection 9, insert …

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Thank you, Madam Chairman. I hear what the Honourable Member says and certainly I think he has misunderstood what I was tr ying to expl ain. [Inaudible interjection]