Speeches by Scott Pearman, MP

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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They are these: • They invite the Ministry to immediately post-pone today’s vote until the legislation is fit for purpose. • They ask for simultaneous update to both the Clear Air Amendment Act and the Clean Air Amendment Regulations. • They ask to allow the Bermuda public to view the updated legislation in good time with full public consultation period …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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It was in the paper. I would think that MP De Silva might have been paying close atten-tion to the paper this week, but that is something— Hon. Zane J. S. De Silva: Point of order, Mr. Speaker.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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I can put any concern on the part of MP De Silva to rest. This is my printout from the paper. But because I am an environmentalist at heart, I took the liberty of removing the photographs before printing it to keep it on fewer sheets of paper. [Inaudible interjections]

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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But there you go. But there we go. Mr. Speaker, with those questions, both the three specific questions that I posed and the five questions that are posed on behalf of the Bermuda Clean Air Coalition, I welcome further answers from the Bill. Again, I leave the Honourable Minister with a suggestion that perhaps rising and reporting would be the …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I have just two questions arising in that cluster of clauses.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Firstly, under clause 2, and at the risk of injecting some levity into this debate, we note that there are trained inspectors, “ means an inspector authorised in writing by the Minister as having been trained in the detection of nuisance odours .” And my question for the Minister is, Do we currently have anyone on the Island who is …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you. That is at clause 4 —

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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—and it is over to the top of page 3 of the Bill, in respect to little (bb), and this is in relation to the issue of permits by the authority and it says, “ subject to a condition that, in installing the controlled plant, the operator shall use the best available technologies for that industry or, where that is …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is just a point and it is . . . what clause would it be? It would be clause 10 —

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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—which runs over three pages. And my question is on page 7 of the Bill.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Right in the middle where we are inserting a new [section] 16E(1), there is a paragraph there that deals with, commences “where a licensee who fails to comply” something has gone wrong in that paragraph. I am not quite sure what it is, but if the draftsmen would want to reread that paragraph . . . there is an extra …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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It is probably just a drafting point, but I highlight it because as it currently stands it does not make sense. Thank you.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. It is just one question that arises in relation to clause 15, although it does relate back also to a point at clause 10. And that is the introduction of the concept of a statutory nuisance. And the reason I refer to clause 10 is because that is where the statutory nuisance is under the …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Honourable Junior Minister for his presentation. As he has explained, there was an unintended exemption discovered in the Companies Act 1981, the primary Act, which was found at section 131(2B). And what that used to say, and what is now being re-moved, is that “ A company liable to pay a …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I would love for the record to show that when the Junior Minister agreed with me earlier, he had his microphone off. So . . . [Laughter]

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Since he was kind enough to agree with me about the dangers of retrospective leg-islation, I am glad to put that on the record. Just the one point and that is at clause 2. So, in effect, notwithstanding that it is retrospective back to 1 January 2024, anyone who has already paid will not have to pay a top- up. …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Clause 4 . . . This is just again one technical point for the draftsmen. At page 5, in the middle of the page, subsection (4), so it is subsection (4) of the new inserted [section] 9(4). It is where the definition ap-pears, “ In this section, an ‘ international arrangement of cooperation . . . …

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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I am happy to clarify with your leave, Mr. Chairman.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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The point was at page 5, under newly . . . so it is clause 4. Clause 4 commences on page 2. And it inserts a whole tranche, [sections] 7 through 16.

13 Dec 2024 House of Assembly

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And the insertion I am referring to is [section] 9 at page 4. If we go over the page un-der [section] 9, is subsection (4) and it is there that we see a defined term “an international arrangement of cooperation.” Because that is a defined term all the other references should say international arrangement of cooperation and some of them …