Former Committees - Select Committee on Euthanasia

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On the 22 February 1995, the Northern Territory Legislative Assembly appointed a Select Committee on Euthanasia to take evidence and submissions on a private member's bill, The Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 1995.

The Committee's report was tabled in the Legislative Assembly on the 16 May 1995.

Terms of Reference
(22 February 1995)

(1) A committee to be known as the Select Committee on Euthanasia be appointed to take evidence and submissions on the Rights of the Terminally Ill Bill 1995;

(2) unless otherwise ordered, membership will comprise Mrs Braham, Mr Rioli, Dr Lim, Mr Poole and Mr Stirling;

(3) the committee be empowered to send for and examine persons, papers and records, to sit in public or in private session notwithstanding any adjournment of the Assembly and to adjourn from place to place;

(4) the committee shall report to the Assembly by 16 May 1995;

(5) the quorum of the committee be 3 members;

(6) the committee be empowered to publish from day to day such papers and evidence as may be ordered by it and, unless otherwise ordered by the committee, a daily Hansard be published of such proceedings as take place in public;

(7) the committee be provided with all necessary staff, facilities and resources and be empowered to appoint persons with specialist knowledge for the purposes of the committee with the approval of the Speaker; and

(8) the foregoing provisions of this resolution, so far as they are inconsistent with standing orders, have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.

Membership
The Hon. EH Poole, MLA
Mrs LM Braham, MLA
Dr RSH Lim, MLA
Mr MJ Rioli, MLA
Mr SJ Stirling, MLA

Contact Details
Mr Russell Keith
Clerk Assistant, Committees
Telephone: (08) 8946 1429
Fax: (08) 8946 1420
Email: russell.keith@nt.gov.au

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