| [DRAFT] Amendment to the Legion of Honor Act as suggested by BeePee |
TSP Legion of Honour Award Act
An Act to recognise military, civil or political service in, to and for the Region.
1. DEFINITIONS: (1) Service is defined as any military, civil, or political action, or a series of actions, taken by an individual that can reasonably be seen as contributing to the betterment or advancement of the South Pacific [the Region]. 2. THE CLASSES OF THE AWARD: (1) The award is to be separated into three classes consisting of: a: Freedom - Awarded for extreme and diligent service of any kind to the Region for a significant length of time. b: Valour - Awarded for consistent and honourable service to the Region while serving in a military position. c: Service - Awarded for civil service, political service, and the betterment and advancement of the Region. 3. THE ISSUING AND NOMINATION PROCESS: (1) Nominations for an Award identified in Part 2 above shall be made by the following means: a: For the class of Freedom, nominations may be made by the Prime Minister or Chief Justice; b: For the class of Valour, nominations may be made by the Minister of Military Affairs or the Council of Regional Security; c: For the class of Service, nomination may be made by any member of the Government, or by direct regional poll. d: For all classes, any Legislator or the Delegate may introduce a nomination to the Assembly, to a maximum of 4 in any calendar year. (2) At at frequency of not more than one poll per quarter, the Assembly shall determine each nomination by means of a majority vote. a: The options available to each poll shall be "@@Nation has been nominated for the Award of @@Class in the Legion of Honour. Should the Assembly support the nomination: • Aye • Nay • Abstain" (3) Self-nomination is prohibited. No Assembly member may cast a ballot in their own determination. (4) The Delegate shall within one month of the determination confirm and issue the Award to the affirmed recipients unless within one month of the determination the Delegate informs the Assembly in TSP Board of their intention to Veto the determination. a: Should the Delegate exercise the Veto option, full and complete and reasonable reasons for Veto must be provided by the Delegate. b: The determination of the Delegate is final with no right of appeal. (5) Should the sitting Delegate be properly nominated as per Section 2 and determined as per Section 3, for the purposes of section 4 'Delegate' shall read as 'Delegate's successor'. 4. REVOCATION OF THE AWARD: (1) Any individual who has been convicted of a crime against the Region, has been impeached or removed from office in the region, or has been found to have been awarded the Award under false or unworthy pretenses shall have the award revoked. 5. USE OF AWARD (1) A recipient of the award may utilize the relevant award as they see fit.
Sorry, I’m just having trouble finding what it is you amended, pls include the old language in red and the new language in green for clarity
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(05-07-2018, 09:13 PM)The Serres Republic Wrote: Sorry, I’m just having trouble finding what it is you amended, pls include the old language in red and the new language in green for clarity This is a pretty big revamp, but here's the current language. TSP Legion of Honor Award act An act to recognize service to the region in ways military, civil, and political. 1. DEFINITIONS: (1) Service is to be defined as any action taken that can reasonably be seen as contributing to the betterment, or advancement of the region whether military, civil, or politically. 2. THE CLASSES OF THE AWARD: (1) The award is to be separated into three different classes consisting of: a: Freedom- Awarded for extreme and diligent service of any kind to the region for a significant length of time. b: Valor- Awarded for consistent and honorable service to the region while serving in a military position. c: Service- Awarded for Civil service, political service, and the betterment and advancement of the region. 3. THE ISSUING AND NOMINATION PROCESS: (1) The delegate is to be the entity that issues the Award to the recipients and must consent to each nominee that is to receive the Award; (2) The nominees for the Award shall be nominated to the classes of Service, Valor, and Freedom by the Assembly or by the following means: a: Nominees may be nominated to the class of Freedom by the Prime Minister or Chief Justice; b: Nominees may be nominated to the class of Valor by the Minister of Military Affairs or the Council of Regional Security; c: Nominees may be nominated to the class of Service by any member of the government, or by direct regional poll. (3) Any legislator as well as the delegate may introduce a candidate for nomination to the Assembly. Candidates are nominated upon the completion of a majority vote. (4) Sitting delegate cannot award themselves the honor, and if they were to be properly nominated by one of ways listed, it would be at their predecessors discretion to confirm their nomination. (5) No person shall nominate themselves for the honor or be involved in the process of their own nomination regardless of position held in regards to process of nomination. 4. REVOCATION OF THE AWARD: (1) Any individual who has been convicted of a crime against the region, has been impeached or removed from office in the region, or has been found to have been awarded the Award under false or unworthy pretenses shall have the award stripped from them. 5. TIME FOR PROCESS: (1) The time for nomination to presentation of the award shall take no more than one months time except in the case of the nomination of the sitting delegate.
I see no reason to stand against these changes as they are. Nice work you two. I support this change.
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Why aren't people allowed to abstain?
No other law determines the exact wording of a poll so if the only purpose of that specifying the vote is to disallow abstaining, I'd rather just say "Abstaining is prohibited". Not sure why it would be though. Can you elaborate on this change? Things could be simplified in section 2. All ministers and delegates and justices have to be legislators anyway so they don't really need to be singled out. The only non legislator in our government (excluding LC) is Pencil Sharpeners 2, who is part of the CRS. I'd suggest simplifying the whole section to "For all classes, any legislator or member of a government body..." Also, 'A:', 'B:' etc need to be in lowercase. I do think this is an improvement.
Sorry i think i see an error at part 3 section 5 it says it should be the delegates successor who provides the award...
I think that should be Chair of the Assembly or maybe Prime minister??? as successor is not known at that point. Does this make sense?
(05-08-2018, 06:36 AM)Beepee Wrote: Sorry i think i see an error at part 3 section 5 it says it should be the delegates successor who provides the award... This is a little embarrassing but when i first wrote the bill i used predecessor instead of successor thinking they meant the same thing. The idea is that the next delegate would confirm the nomination during their term, not that a sitting delegate's nomination would be confirmed during their own term.
Ok. I understand.
Quote:TSP Legion of Honour Award Act Here's a draft to try and streamline and simplify this. Things that I've changed: - simplified nomination process. Instead of "The cabinet can do this, and legislators can do the exact same thing" it's just "legislators and gov can do this". - got rid of the specifications on voting because it's unnecessary to establish that people can vote "aye, nay or abstain". Also you can't ban people from voting - I believe that's against the Charter. So I've removed the prohibition on people voting, since if it's kept this law cannot be brought to vote. If you ignore the rest of this, this is the one thing you absolutely have to change. - I think the same might apply to Delegate vetos being unappealable - I think all government actions must be appealable or at least reviewable by the High Court. So that's removed too. - moved the no-self-nominations part to the part on nominations - made the phrasing around delegate/delegate successor clearer - got rid of the capitalization of Region because it's just unnecessary  - general cleaning up of commas - removed use of the award section. I think that would only be necessary if there were situations the Award wasn't allowed to be used in. I haven't used proper markup because I'm lazy and because the whole law is being basically rewritten anyway so it would be unnecessary to markup the draft in reference to another draft.
I'm in favour of the cabinet, the PM or the CoA, rather than the succeeding delegate, confirming delegate nominations. A delegate's term lasts six months and they are not term limited. As an example, if Tsunamy had been nominated mid-2016 (and he'd have been eminently worthy), his award wouldn't have been able to be confirmed until a whole year later. That's an eternity in NS terms and it would most likely be forgotten about. Even if it wasn't, it would seem a bit of a snub to someone to delay an award because they're too busy deserving it.
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