Honourable Crown Attorney : I beg to move that a Bill for an Ordinance to
provide for the Registration of personsentitled to vote at Elections of Members of
the Legislative Council and to regulate the procedure at such Elections and for
other purposes in connection therewith be-read a second time.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer :- I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a. second time.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : -I beg to move that the Council resolve itself
into a Committee of the whole Council to consider this Bill clause by clause.
 Honourable Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion. -
 Question put and agreed to.
 President : With Honourable Members' permission I .propose to ask the
 Labour Commissioner, who has largely been instrumental in preparing this Bill, to
 sit in on the Bill.
 Agreed.

 In Committee.
 Honorable Crown -Attorney : I' would like to point out that certain
 amendments to this Bill will be necessary when the St. Vincent Legislative Council
 Order-in-Council, 1951, has been received from the Secretary of State.
 Clause 2-Interpretation.
 Question that Clause 2 stand part of the Bill put and agreed to.
 Clause 3-Electoral'district.
 Question that Clause 3 stand part of the Bill put and agreed to:
 Honorable Crown Attorney : Between Clause 3 and Clause 4 I would like to
 insert the words PART II. REGISTRATION OF ELBCTO'RS ".
 Amendment agreed to.
 Clause 4-Qualifications of electors.
 Question that Clause 4 stand part of the Bill put and agreed to.
 Clause 5-Disqualification of electors.
 Honourable Crown Attorney : There has been a suggestion in one or two of
 the other Islands of the Group that there should be a further electors qualification
 making it necessary for a person to reside ih his Electoral district for a period of 6
 months prior to the election. This has been done as a safeguard against a person
 voting in more than one electoral district. In considering, this point we must,
 however, think of the greater evil which might result tlierefrom, viz that it might
 prevent-certain people from voting at all. I do not know whether Honourable
 Members consider it necessary to make this amendment.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown: As long as'a person is,registered in a
 district he must have been resident there. /
 President: If you had two political parties and one party felt certain of -
 obtaining a seat in the district, they could arrange for 200 or 300 persons to
 register there, so that they could vote for a party candidate in that district. In
 order to prevent that, this additional qualification has been proposed.
 Honourable Member for Kingstown : But a voter can only vote in one district.