SOLOMON ISLANDS

FACILITATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009
(NO. 21 OF 2009)

PASSED by the National Parliament this sixteenth day of November 2009.
 (This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill passed by Parliament and found by me to be a true copy of the Bill)

Taeasi Sanga (Mrs)
Clerk to National Parliament

ASSENTED to in Her Majesty's name and on Her Majesty's behalf this fourth day of December 2009.

Sir Frank Utu Ofagioro Kabui
Governor-General

Date of Commencement: (See section 1)

AN ACT TO AMEND THE FACILITATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE ACT 2003

ENACTED by the National Parliament of Solomon Islands.

FACILITATION OF INTERNATIONAL ASSISTANCE (AMENDMENT) ACT 2009

Citation and commencement

1. This Act may be cited as the Facilitation of International Assistance (Amendment) Act 2009, and commences on the date it is published in the Gazette.

New section 23A added

2. The principal Act is amended by adding after section 23(4) the following new section –

"Laying of notice when Parliament is not sitting"

"23A. (1) Where Parliament is, for any reason, unable to sit during the 3 months that end on a review date, the international assistance notice shall continue to be valid and shall be laid before Parliament in accordance with subsections (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6). 

(2) In the next sitting of Parliament following a review date, the Prime Minister may move a motion for a resolution to appoint a date ("appointed date") within that sitting on which the international assistance notice shall be laid before Parliament.

(3) If Parliament passes a resolution under subsection (2), the international assistance notice shall be laid before Parliament on the appointed date, unless the notice is earlier revoked.

(4) If Parliament passes a resolution within 3 months after the appointed date, to the effect that the notice is annulled, the notice ceases to have effect from 21 days after the date of the resolution, but without affecting the validity of anything previously done under this Act because of the notice.

(5) If an international assistance notice is laid before Parliament in accordance with subsections (2) and (3) and no resolution is passed in accordance with subsection (4), the notice shall next be laid before Parliament on the next review date, in accordance with section 23.

(6) If Parliament does not pass a resolution under subsection (2), the international assistance notice shall continue to be valid and shall next be laid before Parliament within the three months that end on the next review date in accordance with section 23."