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whether it should be distributive voting or one man one vote or cumulative voting or any other system. I have not the slightest intention to deprive Parliament of its right to have its determination upon that subject. In fact, as I said in my opening speech yesterday and according to the statement made yesterday by the Prime Minister, this Bill is not a complete Bill itself. This Bill is to be followed by another Bill which may be either called Conduct of Elections Bill or the Electoral Bill. In that Bill, matters relating to the constituencies, qualifications and disqualifications of candidates and matters relating to the voting system will be dealt with and it will be undoubtedly within the competence of Parliament to come to a decision when that Bill is placed before the House, as to what sort of system of constituency and voting they approve of. Therefore, there is no desire at all to oust the jurisdiction of Parliament at all. On the other hand, as my hon. friends will remember, I myself am anxious that at every stage in the delimitation of constituencies, Parliament should be associated. As they know, I am making a provision in clause
13 that not only will the order of delimitation be placed before Parliament as an information, but also I am going to move an amendment that Parliament should have the right to make suggestions and modifications as it likes provided it wishes to do so within a stated priod of ten days or so. In addition to that, there is also going to be an amendment empowering the Speaker to appoint Committees of this House to be associated with the work of delimiting constituencies, the members to be drawn from that particular area. Having regard to the statement which I have made, I think it is clear that I have not the slightest desire to oust the jurisdiction of Parliament. I am providing for placing the Order of delimitation on the Table of the House with the right of the House to make any changes they may like and in addition there is a further provision that the Speaker will have the right to appoint Committees to be associated with the work of delimitation. I do not think that any Member have any doubt that we have the fullest desire to have Parliament’s decision on this matter. The only thing is that this Bill