On 8th August 2019 the National Assembly passed the Maintenance of Peace and Order Bill with amendments to clauses 4, 5, 7, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 21 and the Schedule plus the insertion of a Preamble and a new clause 24 repealing the Public Order and Security Act. 

Veritas has prepared an annotated version of the original Bill indicating the amendments.  The text of the amendments is also available on this website.

This Departmental Draft - i.e. a rough draft still to be completed and polished  - of the Finance (No. 2) Bill was tabled by the Minister of Finance and Economic Development when be presented his 2019 Mid-Year Budget Review and Supplementary Budget to the National Assembly on Thursday 1st August 2019.  

This Bill was published in a special Government Gazette Extraordinary on Tuesday 23rd July 2019.  The following passage is an extract from the explanatory memorandum published with the Bill:-

The Tripartite Negotiating Forum Bill went through its Committee Stage in the National Assembly on Friday 17th May.  Several clauses were amended, notably provisions giving the Government twice the representation (14 members) allocated to each of Organised Labour (7 members) and Organised Business (7 members).  The amendments reduce Government members to 7.

MEMORANDUM