View Topic

Title
1. This act shall be cited as the Grammar Amendment Simplification Act.

Legislation
2. Errors of punctuation, capitalization, and formatting in statutory and procedural legislation may henceforth be amended at the discretion of the Speaker of the Underhusen and Chairperson of the Overhusen subject to the restrictions outlined below.
     2.1 Formatting is defined as precedent-defined layout of legislation, limited to numbering, section titling, and citations of other laws.
     2.2 Correction of these errors may not alter the plain meaning of the legislation.
     2.3 This power does not extend to Constitutional Law, which shall continue to only be amendable pursuant to Section VII of the Fundamental Laws.
     2.4 The Speaker of the Underhusen may only amend statutory and Underhusen procedural legislation.
     2.5 The Chairperson of the Overhusen may only amend statutory and Overhusen procedural legislation.
3. The Speaker or Chairperson must report any proposed changes to both their respective chamber and Monarch and must ensure a minimum of 48 hours passes between making the report and making any such changes.
4. Where either the Monarch or a member of the Storting should dispute the change, the Speaker or Chairperson may either explain their changes or present the amendments as proposed legislation to the appropriate chamber.
     4.1 Should there be no dispute for the minimum 48 hours, or should all disputation be withdrawn, the Speaker or Chairperson may make their amendments.
     4.2 All members of the Storting, as well as the Monarch, reserve the right to contest any changes made at any time within the session during which the legislation was considered, so long as the legislation is not an amendment to the procedural rules of another chamber.
     4.3 Should a dispute still exist after 48 hours the Speaker or Chairman must bring the amendment to a vote.

This is based on an older piece of legislation from the 28th term. I thought it would be nice to reintroduce with corrections based on the concerns raised back then. Feel free to point out any more.

@Wuufu
@Wintermoot
@Aragonn
@Cinciri
@trader

for the Overhusen's convenience.

The only issue I see is that the Overhusen chair is the Chairperson (Chairman/Chairwoman), not the Speaker. Otherwise it seems fine to me.

The only issue I see is that the Overhusen chair is the Chairperson (Chairman/Chairwoman), not the Speaker. Otherwise it seems fine to me.

Blocked and reported
Noted

Alongside the small errors noted by Wintermoot and taulover, the following changes have been made:
Section 2 is changed to read:

2. "Typographical errors" Errors of punctuation, capitalization, and "Formatting errors" in statutory and procedural legislation may henceforth be amended at the discretion of the Speakers of the Underhusen and Chairperson of the Overhusen in the contexts outlined below.

Section 2.1 is stricken, with following section numbers changed accordingly.

2.1. "Typographical errors" are to be defined as errors of punctuation or capitalization.

I was going to say, Wintreath only really uses one font, so there shouldn't be any issues with typography in any piece of legislation.

Other than that, I don't see any issues with the bill that would prevent it from being passed.

I was going to say, Wintreath only really uses one font, so there shouldn't be any issues with typography in any piece of legislation.

Typographical error as in typo.

Section 2 is changed to read:

2. Errors of punctuation, capitalization, and "Fformatting errors" in statutory and procedural legislation may henceforth be amended at the discretion of the Speaker of the Underhusen and Chairperson of the Overhusen in the contexts outlined below.

2.1. "Formatting errors" are is to be defined as precedent-defined errors in the formatting layout of legislation, limited to numbering, section titling, and citations of other laws.

Along with the changes suggested by taulover in the Underhusen, the following changes have been made:
Section 4 has been changed to read:

4. Where either the Monarch or Underhusen should dispute the change, the Speaker or Chairperson may elect to either explain their changes or, should the law in question be statutory, present the amendments as proposed legislation to the Underhusen.

Section 4.2 has been changed to read:

4.2. All members of the UnderhusenStorting, as well as the Monarch, reserve the right to contest any changes made at any time within the session during which the legislation was considered, so long as the legislation is not an amendment to the procedural rules of another chamber.

Bumping this thread due to the reintroduction of this bill.

@Wuufu @Wintermoot @Cinciri @trader @Aragonn
If you all have any reservations or see any corrections that are needed, please say so here. I don't want anything being failed in the OH due to something that could have been worked out here.

Still seems fine to me.

You've got my support, unless someone brings up something I've overlooked!

I figured "Storting" was a less official name for the UH and therefore not the preferred name to use in legislation.

I figured "Storting" was a less official name for the UH and therefore not the preferred name to use in legislation.

Storting is not UH, it means both OH and UH, and is just as formal, being the title of the first article in the Fundamental Laws.

The discussion has resumed on this legislation.
For discussion among the UH only, refer to this link.