Sub-Committee on reform

 

In 2015, the Privileges and Procedures Committee (PPC) established a Sub-Committee to consider further the question of reform. 

 

The Sub-Committee undertook a wide-ranging consultation process with all States Members during the second half of 2015 and reported to PPC in 2016. The Assembly ultimately came to debate reform proposals in early 2017 which had been lodged by Deputy A.D. Lewis of St. Helier, rather than by PPC, but the Assembly did not approve proposed changes to the make-up of the Assembly and to constituency boundaries. 

 

In the course of its work the Sub-Committee set out to:

 

The Sub-Committee represented a joint effort between PPC and the Chief Minister’s Department . Its membership included two PPC appointees and two Ministerial appointees:

 

Download the Sub-Committee’s Terms of Reference​ (size 21kb)

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Download the Sub-Committee on reform ​agenda 12 May 2015 (size 169kb)

 

 

Download the prospective timeline for reform process (size 147kb)

Download report on the Code of Good Practice in electoral matters: The Venice Commission (size 394kb)​

Download explanatory note on voting systems (size 384kb)

Download reform workshop results 2 June 2015 (size 118kb)

Download results of mock election undertaken at workshop on 14 July 2015 (size 255kb)

Download explanatory not​e on the basis for calculating equity (size ​308kb)

Download reform workshop results 14 July 2015 (size 226kb)​