4th Session, 35th Parliament -- Guide for Users

1995
4th Session
35th Parliament

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

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Guide for Users of the Hansard Index

The Hansard index provides page references to the official record of debates of the Legislative Assembly. Entries fall into one of three categories: subject, speaker or House business. Subject headings reflect the topics discussed by members; speaker entries begin with the member’s name and are followed by the subjects spoken on by that member; and House business headings represent the routine and other business of the Legislative Assembly (see list below). Main headings may be followed by one or two subheadings. The introduction of guests and visitors is not indexed.

CROSS REFERENCES

See directs the user to the subject heading under which entries will be found in this index. EXAMPLE:

Drinking driving See Impaired driving

See also directs the user to related subjects. EXAMPLE:

Schools. See also Education

Cross references to a first subhead are denoted by a long dash.

EXAMPLE:

Technology

Training in schools. See Technology training under Education — Curriculum

HOUSE BUSINESS

House business entries include:: Bills, Legislative; Budget; Chair and Deputy Chair, rulings and statements; Divisions; Ministerial statements; Motions; Oral questions; Petitions; Private members’ statements; Privilege; Speaker and Deputy Speaker, rulings and statements; Speech from the Throne (includes Address in reply)

All bills introduced during the session are listed in numerical order under “Bills, Legislative” as well as in a separate alphabetical list near the front of the index.

Estimates are listed according to name of ministry, legislative officer (e.g., Auditor General) or agency (e.g., Commission on Resources and Environment).

FILING SEQUENCE

The basic filing sequence used in this index is alphabetical, word by word. Punctuation is ignored in filing. EXAMPLE:

Natural gas industry, deregulation
Natural gas industry in northern B.C.
Natural gas industry, investment

Mc is filed as if it were spelled Mac. Abbreviations and acronyms used in this index are filed as follows:

MLAs	Members of the Legislative Assembly
MPs	Members of Parliament
NDP	New Democratic Party
AIDS	Aids
GAIN	as a main heading, Guaranteed Available Income for Need program; as a sub-heading, Gain
DNA	Dna
CFB	(when not written out as Canadian Forces Base) Cfb
B.C.	British Columbia
U.S.	United States
St.	Saint

Numbers are filed numerically in ascending order when they denote highway, school district or tree farm licence numbers, and as if written out when they are part of a name.

EXAMPLES:

British Columbia Trucking Association

B.C. 21 program

British Columbia Utilities Commission

Abbreviations used in House business entries are the following:

Amdt	Amendment
Sec	Section
1R	First reading
2R	Second reading
C	Committee stage
3R	Third reading
RA	Royal assent
Q	Question
A	Answer

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