2003 4th Session 37th Parliament

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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 headings begin with the member's name and are followed by the subjects spoken on by that member or comments made about the member; and House business headings represent the routine and other business of the Legislative Assembly (see list below). Entries under speakers' names may be less specific than entries under subject headings; we may group similar topics under a general heading, using words like "issues" or "operations." For a more extensive breakdown of a member's debate on a topic, see the main subject heading.

The introduction of guests and visitors is not indexed. However, Hansard, as well as the indexes, can be word-searched electronically from the Hansard web site (http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/hansard/search). The indexes themselves can be linked to from http://www.legis.gov.bc.ca/hansard. The page references within the indexes are linked to the Hansard text.

CROSS-REFERENCES

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

Example:

Drinking and driving See Impaired driving

To refer to a different term under the same main heading, we may use "above/below under this main heading."

Example:

Forest industry

Remanufacturing industry See Value-added sector below under this main heading

See also directs the user to related subjects or definitive headings.

Examples:

Assessment Appeal Board See also Property assessment appeal board under Real property tax

Schools See also Education

Taxation See also particular taxes, e.g., Income tax

HOUSE BUSINESS

House business entries appear under these main headings, as needed:

Address from the Bar of the House
Bills, Legislative
Budget
Citizens' initiatives
Divisions, Recorded
Documents tabled
Ministerial statements
Motions
Oral questions
Petitions
Points of order
Presentation of new member(s)
Private members' statements
Privilege
Proclamations
Prorogation
Quorum called (under the main heading Legislature)
Public written questions
Rulings and statements by Chair or Speaker
Speech from the Throne (includes Address in Reply)
Statements by members (Standing order 25B)
Voting records (Standing votes)

All bills introduced during the session are listed in alphabetical and then numerical order under the main heading Bills, Legislative, as well as alphabetically in the introductory pages of the printed index.

The list of oral questions appears within the index under Oral questions, sorted both by member's name and by subject.

Budget estimates are listed according to the name of the ministry (e.g., Forests, Ministry of), legislative officer (e.g., Auditor general) or agency (e.g., Elections B.C.).

The records of how Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) voted in standing votes are provided in a separate index on the Internet, headed "Voting Records by Member (Standing votes)," and as an appendix to the printed index. These recorded divisions are listed in the index with their page references, under the heading Divisions, Recorded.

FILING SEQUENCE

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

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

ABBREVIATIONS

Abbreviations used in the procedural entries for bills are the following:

NUMBERS

Numbers are filed numerically in ascending order and preceding the alpha characters. Examples:

100 Mile House, B.C.
Agriculture industry
B.C. 21 program
British Columbia Assessment
Highway 1
Highway 17
Highway 19

MEMBERS AS SUBJECT

Under MLAs' names as main headings, we now group together any entries about the member himself/herself and file them at the top of the member's subject heading, under the subheading As subject.

NOTES

If someone is a member of cabinet for any portion of this session, "Hon." (Honourable) will be used before their name in the index and member lists, unless none of their index entries were during the time they were ministers.

If users are interested in matters of legislative procedure, these main headings will be of interest:

Divisions, Recorded
Legislature
Motions
Points of order
Privilege
Rulings and statements by Chair or Speaker
Standing order 35 adjournment motions

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