States Minutes 6th November 1985

THE STATES assembled on Wednesday, 6th November, 1985 at 10.15 a.m. under

the Presidency of the Bailiff ,

Sir Frank Ereaut. ____________

All members were present with the exception of –

Senator Anne Baal – out of the Island. Senator John Stephen Rothwell – ill.

Jean Amy Le Maistre, Deputy of St. Helier – out of the Island.

Enid Clare Quenault, Deputy of St. Brelade – out of the Island.

John Philip Farley, Deputy of St. Helier – out of the Island.

Bertram Manning Le Maistre, Deputy of St. Mary – out of the Island.

Ronald Winter Blampied, Deputy of St. Helier – out of the Island.

Thomas John du Feu, Deputy of St. Peter – out of the Island.

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Prayers read by the Greffier ____________

Additional  water  resources –  appointment  of  Committee  of Inquiry. P.128/85.

THE  STATES  rejected  a  Proposition  of   Deputy  Robin  Ernest Richard Rumboll of St. Helier –

1. to appoint a Committee of Inquiry under Article 30of the States of Jersey Law, 1966, to inquire into and evaluate the financial, legal and environmental factors relating  to  ways  of providing  additional  water resources;

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2. to agree that the Committee so appointed under paragraph (2) should be designated a Committee of Inquiry for the purposes of Articles 41 to 46 inclusive and Article 49of the said Law;
3. to agree –

1. that no further steps be taken to implement the States' decision of 11th November, 1980, to construct a reservoir in Queen's Valley; and
2. that the draft Queen's Valley Reservoir (Jersey) Law, 198 (P.115/85) should not be debated;

until after the Committee of Inquiry has presented its findings to the States.

Members present voted as follows –

"Pour" (13)

Senators

Shenton, Sandeman, Horsfall.

Connétable s

Grouville , St. Clement , St. Lawrence .

Deputies

St. Ouen , Le Brocq(H), Le Quesne(S), Rumboll(H), Grouville , Thorne (B), Carter(H).

"Contre" (30)

Senators

Vibert , Le Marquand, Jeune , Binnington, Ellis, Le Main, Manton.

Connétable s

St. Saviour , St. John , Trinity , St. Brelade , St. Martin , St. Helier , St. Mary , St. Ouen .

Deputies

Mourant(H), Morel (S), Perkins(C), Le Gallais(S), Roche(S), Trinity , Filleul(H), Vandervliet(L), Le Fondré(L), Beadle(B), Billot(S), Norman(C), St. John , Mahoney(H), St. Martin .

Dégrèvement procedure: amendment. P.92/85.

THE STATES acceded to the request of Senator Richard Joseph Shenton that consideration of the proposed amendment to the dégrèvement procedure (lodged on 20th August, 1985) be deferred from the present Sitting to 19th November, 1985.

Arrangement of Public Business. THE STATES decided –

1. to defer consideration of the draft Queen's Valley Reservoir (Jersey) Law, 198 (P.115/85 – lodged on 8th October, 1985) from 19th November to 26th November, 1985;
2. to take into consideration on 19th November the draft Shops (Sunday Trading) (No. 6) (Jersey) Regulations, 198 (P.72/85 – lodged on 16th July 1985), previously set down for 26th November, 1985; and
3. to take into consideration on 19th November all those items set down for debate on 26th November, 1985,at the previous meeting.

THE STATES rose at 6.05 p.m.

E.J.M. POTTER, Greffier of the States.