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Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

Lawrence Scott, JP, MP

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30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
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Thank you. So, Mr. Chairman, I am happy to have—
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
Official Hansard Report - House Of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I am happy to have an offline discussion about this. As I said, I am not looking for any amend-ments, so we do not have to go through this right now. It is just as long as we do have a point where we can sit down and address them because I think that they are …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chai rman . And, Mr. Chairman, just in continuing, I am happy to have an offline discussion about any com-ments that I have. The other thing, Mr. Chairman, is that my comments only go up to section 31, so after that, we can move all the rest of the clauses, if nobody else is going to speak. …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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So, on page 11, Part 4, Unfair Debt Collection Practices. So, I note in clause 16(2)(b) it identifies threatening to use any means to spread false information concerning the credi tworthiness of a debtor. But can there also be consideration given to you cannot contact a debtor through email, WhatsApp, or through any other means? Because now there are so …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Oh, sorry. Page 14, clause 20, and then clause 20[1](c). So, it is presuming that the debtor is going to receive the notice. So, will notice be served by process server or registered letter or some other way of evidencing that the person has gotten the notice, because there are times when, you know, the creditor . . . the …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Does the debtor have a right to say, Okay, I want you to pay this on my BELCO bill, this month. So it is not where I pay the money to the . . . I will go to BC A and I have got 10 bills, right. And I go to BCA and I just give them $50 and …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Oh, sorry.
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay. And there does not seem to be any reference to when a debt might be statutebarred. So are you considering what happens in that case?
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Right. But there is no reference— oh, sorry. [Crosstalk]
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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I recognise that there is a statute of limitations, but there is no reference to it within the legislation. And there is no reference to whether if a debt is statute- barred what . . . kind of, what the r ecourse is. On page 16, Part 5, clause 23(1) where a debtor may lodge a complaint against an alleged …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Okay. And then . . . I think that is it on that page.
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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And, then, I just have . . . so, in looking at the . . . on page 19, [clause] 28 . . . and I am not going to get into a long discussion because I think it is just, it is confusion between the Tribunal and the Authority. And I am not going to waste the time here …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . Mr. Speaker, we do not have any challenges with this piece of legislation. It is essentially bringing the legislation in compliance with various Conventions and so, accordingly, the Opposition supports the Bill. Thank you.
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do not have anything to say other than to say that, again, we believe the legislation is just in line with Conventions and it is just a tidy up. So, not to let the public think that we are not doing our job, but there really is not anything contentious within the leg-islation. So, thank …
30 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker, we actually do not have anything to say about the Order. However, I just have a question on page 3, section 7, under Offences, 7(1) says “A carrier or performing carrier commits an offence if —” and I would presume because there is no definition in the Act of what a “carrier” is, that a carrier would be …
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Thank you, Mr. Speaker . I think my counterpart over there does not want me to talk. [Laughter]
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Mr. Speaker , you never know where your mentors are going to come from. And for the years that I have be en in this House I have watched Mr. De Silva during debates, and I have watched him have his files with all of his cuttings and all of his information and do his research. So what I have …
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Point of order, Mr. Speaker .
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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Yes, the Honourable Member is misleading the House, because she is making it . . . the Honourable Member is making it seem as though there is only one i ndividual that got reimbursed for the faulty legislation that the OBA passed, when it was actually multiple organisations which included the Bermuda Hospital itself — [Inaudible interjections]
23 Nov 2018 House of Assembly
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—which was impacted. And that impact al so hurt the health insurance costs of the country which were increased for everybody because they did not listen to their technical officers and they were governing from afar.