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Scott Pearman, MP

Scott Pearman, MP

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17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thank you, Minister. So, Minister, the purpose (as I understand it) is to try to expedite delays. And the delays as you explained in your speech are in part owing to the fact that certain medical practitioners or coroner do not want to certify the cause of death because of the COVID -19 situation. If …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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The Minister is nodding his head to confirm. The question I have is this: If you look at paragraphs 1 through 5 (inclusive) of Form E, and you compare them with clause 6 in Form F[1], the Form E that still has to be completed even truncatedly, paragraphs 1 through 5, still requires the doctors, medi cal practitioners or the …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Minister. So my understanding of your answer is that notwithstanding that the short form death certificate doesn’t require a place of birth, we are still going to make the people filling in the preliminary form find out that information and fill it in. Wouldn’t it make more sense just to have them marry up? Hon. Walter H. Roban: …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. Clause 6 —Minister, you have indicated that the purpose here is to produce the short form certificate of death that we see at clause 6. Are you confident that that short form certificate of death will satisfy probate requirements? Hon. Walter H. Roban: Yes, I am certain because it is with those persons in the …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am not sure if the preamble has been moved. My question relates to the preamble.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Not yet.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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I will wait until the preamble. Thank you.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Honourable Minister , in the preamble it indicates that the shortened notification of death will be an initial shortened notification of death and from your previous answer I just want to clarify my understanding. So someone will actually receive a short form death certif-icate and that at some later date, someone will receive a long form, …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Yes, thank you, to that answer, Mr. Chairman. Will the long form when issued subsequent to the short form then replace the short form? Or will they both be there in tandem?
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you for that [answer] as well. Do you have a timeframe between short form and how long you think the long form will take? Thank you. The Chairman: Mm-hmm. Hon. Walter H. Roban: I don’t think I can actually, at this point, give that answer. But as soon as I get some more clarification from the Registrar, I will …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Finally, Mr. Chairman, Does the Minister know when this will come into effect? When will we start to see short forms?
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker. POINT OF ORDER [Misleading]
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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The honourable speaker at the moment is misleading the House. MP Cannonier did not say the Hamilton Princess. He said industry -wide. Thank you.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Chairman, during the debate there was a bit of toing- and-froing between the learned MP behind me and the Deputy Premier and the Opposition Leader. And I believe the Attorney General may have weighed in. And if I may, I will just weigh in on clause 17.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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And I will try to do so lightly, but just to explain the issue in case it was not appreciated. Forgive me if I am saying something that everyone in this room already understands. And that is, we have primary legislation and we have secondary legislation. Primary legislation is an Act, it is a Bill and be-comes an Act. The …
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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If you look, Mr. Chairman, at clause 17, “The Minister may, by regulations,” (no problem there) “make amendments to” (and here is the problem) “such enactments . . .”. If “such enactments” is removed, no problem with this clause.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Because the Minister may by regulations make amendments to instruments as it appears to the Minister to be necessary. You can use secondary legislation to amend secondary legislation. What you should not be able to do is use secondary legislation to amend primary legislation.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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I’m sorry. I will just add that this clause does not appear in the 1990 UK legislation. This is a clause that has been put into our Bill here in Bermuda. It is not in the primary Act from the UK.
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker —
17 May 2024 House of Assembly
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I saw the look in your eye and that you wanted to head home. I apologise.