(06-12-2022, 10:45 PM)Farengeto Wrote: Just for the purpose of being legally unambiguous here, I would suggest some kind of resolution with this amendment making it clear what happens with shutting down the ministry and the dismissal of the minister. (e.g. The minister being dismissed immediately after its passage vs serving out the remainder of the term.)

Best not to have a defunct ministry floating around in a legally ambiguous state for the rest of the term if we can avoid it.

I'd think this wouldn't too much of an issue. From the perspective of the law, the Ministry just wouldn't exist any more - the Minister wouldn't have any legal role or position, the assets just wouldn't be owned by any one, etc. The Ministry would just disappear - we don't have any assets/wages/contracts/etc. to worry about, so there isn't any problem with this.

The only reason we should need to pass a resolution alongside this is if we wanted to delay the actual removal of the ministry until the next election or something similar, which there seems to be a consensus on not doing.