Decision details
Motion under Standing Order 16.5 to Establish an Assembly Committee
Decision Maker: Plenary - Fourth Assembly
Status: Recommendations approved
Is Key decision?: Yes
Purpose:
The Assembly must consider a
motion tabled by the Business Committee to agree the membership and chair of
each committee established by a resolution of the Assembly.
Decision:
The item started at 14.29
Voting
on the motion under this item was deferred until Voting Time.
NDM5634 Jane Hutt AM
(Vale of Glamorgan)
To
propose that the National Assembly for Wales, in accordance with Standing Order
16.5:
1.
Establishes a Committee on the protection of children from battery inflicted on
grounds of reasonable punishment; and
2.
Agrees that the remit of the Committee is to examine the policy and legislative
considerations surrounding the removal of the “reasonable punishment” defence
in relation to battery of a child, further to section 58 of the Children Act
2004. The Committee will be dissolved following the debate on its report.
The
result was as follows:
|
For |
Abstain |
Against |
Total |
|
32 |
0 |
21 |
53 |
The
motion was agreed.
Publication date: 25/11/2014
Date of decision: 25/11/2014
Decided at meeting: 25/11/2014 - Plenary - Fourth Assembly