One significant amendment made to the Bill was the so-called Weatherill Amendment, named for the Lord Weatherill, the former Speaker of the House of Commons.

For the sake of form this amendment was formally proposed by Lord Weatherill, Convenor of the Cross-Bench Peers.

The Department for Transport, Energy and Infrastructure ( now changed to DPTI, since Jay Weatherill took over ) has responsibilities in relation to transport system and services, energy policy and regulation, and infrastructure planning for South Australia:

Sir Paul was a Deputy Speaker of the House to George Thomas and latterly Bernard Weatherill from 1982 to 1992 ; he served longer than anyone else since the post was created in 1902.

This convention was not respected during the 1987 General Election, when both the Labour Party and the Social Democratic Party fielded candidates against the Conservative Speaker, Bernard Weatherill, who was MP for Croydon North East.

For example, Selwyn Lloyd and George Thomas had both previously served as high-ranking Cabinet members, whilst Bernard Weatherill was previously a party whip.

Rann formally resigned from the premiership on 21 October 2011 and was replaced by Jay Weatherill.

Bruce Bernard Weatherill, Baron Weatherill, PC, DL, KStJ ( 25 November 1920 – 6 May 2007 ) was a British Conservative Party politician who became Speaker of the House of Commons.

After attending Malvern College, he was apprenticed at age 17 as a tailor to the family firm Bernard Weatherill Ltd, Sporting Tailors, later of Savile Row.

Enlisting as a private in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry Regiment of the British Army, a few days after the start of World War II, Weatherill was commissioned into the 4th / 7th Dragoon Guards in May 1941 and reached the rank of Captain three years after that.

From October 1971 to April 1973, Weatherill was Vice-Chamberlain of Her Majesty's Household.

This office is usually held by a Government whip, as Weatherill then was.

In fact, from the Act of Union in 1801 until 1992, every Speaker elected came from the benches of whichever party was in government at the time of transition ( see List of Speakers of the British House of Commons )-a convention which had, by coincidence, led to alternation between Labour and Conservative Speakers being elected between 1965 ( Horace King, the first Speaker elected from the Labour Party ) and 1983 ( Bernard Weatherill ).

Former senator Natasha Stott Despoja was a contemporary, along with current Premier of South Australia, Jay Weatherill whom Wong dated while at university.

He was first elected to the House of Commons at the 1992 general selection, succeeding the outgoing speaker Bernard Weatherill who was retiring from the Commons.

# A spoof of the Oscars, the " Ted Weatherill Award " ( or " Teddy ") is named after a former chairman of the Canada Labour Relations Board who was dismissed in 1998 for excessive spending.

Georganas was a ministerial adviser from 2002 to 2004 for South Australian government minister Jay Weatherill.

* Wild Magic by Cat Weatherill tells the legend with a twist, following the children as the piper brings them to a world of magic where they are transformed into animals.

He resigned from the premiership in October 2011 to be succeeded by Jay Weatherill.

The Weatherill Amendment put into place the deal agreed to by the Prime Minister and Viscount Cranborne, and allowed ninety-two hereditary peers to remain members of the House of Lords.

This at that time made him the longest-serving Croydon MP ( a record later broken by Bernard Weatherill ).

Most of the Labor state Premiers are associated with the Right ; there are some exceptions, such as former Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill.

This led to negotiations between Viscount Cranborne the then Shadow Leader of the House, and the Labour Government which resulted in the Weatherill Amendment to the House of Lords Act 1999 which preserved 92 Hereditary Peers in the house.

* Bernard Weatherill 1973 – 1974

Bernard Weatherill had announced his impending retirement a long time before the 1992 general election, leading to a long but suppressed campaign for support.

The Labour and Liberal parties stood against Selwyn Lloyd in both elections in 1974, and Labour and the SDP stood against Bernard Weatherill in 1987.

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* 1972 – 1973: Bernard Weatherill

Notable holders of the office include Sir George Carteret, Lord Hervey, the Earl of Harrington, the Earl Spencer, Michael Stewart and Bernard Weatherill.

South Australia's Governor is Kevin Scarce and its Premier is Jay Weatherill of the Australian Labor Party.

In late July 2011, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ( ABC ) and The Advertiser reported that senior figures within Labor had indicated to Rann that the left and right factions had formally decided to replace Rann with Jay Weatherill as party leader.

A day later, Rann confirmed he would stand down and undergo a party leadership transition to Weatherill, with the handover occurring in October 2011.

* Weatherill, David.

The peace accords call for a one-third reduction in the army's authorized strength and budget — achieved in 2004 — and for a constitutional amendment to permit the appointment of a civilian minister of defense.

Working with his brother Thomas ( also a Stanford graduate and a lawyer ), Crothers identified and corrected numerous major legal defects in the terms of the university's founding grant and successfully lobbied for an amendment to the California state constitution granting Stanford an exemption from taxation on its educational property — a change which allowed Jane Stanford to donate her stock holdings to the university.

It was suggested that the two houses first adopt a resolution indicating that they deem an amendment necessary, but this procedure has never been used — the U. S. Senate and the U. S. House of Representatives instead directly proceed to the adoption of a joint resolution, thereby proposing the amendment with the implication that both bodies " deem " the amendment to be " necessary.

In the case of the Equal Rights Amendment, however, it was argued that since the original March 22, 1979, deadline was contained in only the resolving clause of the joint resolution proposing the amendment — rather than in the actual text of the amendment itself — that the deadline could be altered.

During the original debate over the amendment Senator Jacob M. Howard of Michigan — the author of the Citizenship Clause — described the clause as having the same content, despite different wording, as the earlier Civil Rights Act of 1866, namely, that it excludes Native Americans who maintain their tribal ties and " persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers.

In Coleman, the Supreme Court further ruled that the ratification of a constitutional amendment is political in nature — and so not a matter properly assigned to the judiciary.

:: When, therefore, this court adjudges, as it does now adjudge, that Congress cannot impose a duty or tax upon personal property, or upon income arising either from rents of real estate or from personal property, including invested personal property, bonds, stocks, and investments of all kinds, except by apportioning the sum to be so raised among the States according to population, it practically decides that, without an amendment of the Constitution — two-thirds of both Houses of Congress and three-fourths of the States concurring — such property and incomes can never be made to contribute to the support of the national government.

On July 13, an amendment calling for more study of the project — the Mondale-Bayh Amendment — was defeated.

One lobbyist said, " I've had members pull me aside and ask me to talk to another member of Congress about a bill or amendment, but I've never been asked to work on a bill — at least like they are asking us to whip bills now.

The amendment also modified the chain of succession again — it is now as follows:

After the 18th Amendment was repealed in 1933, Yuengling sent a truckload of " Winner Beer " to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in appreciation, which arrived the day the amendment was repealed — particularly notable since Yuengling beer takes almost three weeks to brew and age.

* Constitution Alteration ( Social Services ) Act, 1946 — the fourth amendment to the Constitution of Australia.

The failure of the Meech Lake Accord — an abortive attempt to redress the constitutional problems brought on by the adoption of the 1982 amendment without the Quebec government's approval — strengthened the conviction of most sovereigntist politicians and led many federalist ones to place little hope in the prospect of a federal constitutional reform that would satisfy Quebec's purported historical demands ( according to proponents of the sovereignty movement ).

When the government opposed the amendment, Puttnam brokered a compromise — the introduction of a " public interest " test to be applied by the new regulator Ofcom, but without explicit restrictions.

In June 1999, he sponsored an amendment to a youth violence bill that allowed school districts to use federal funds to develop curricula which included elements designed to promote and enhance students ' moral character ; the amendment passed 422 — 1.