Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Monday 27th December 1948

I regret of course that that should have commended itself to the good sense of the House for I fear that the possibility of holding in Unlimited succession the office of the President is apt to lead to undesirable consequences on which oLe. [...] That the President sholild be free from any entanglements that the President should be free ftl'Om any interest other than that of the State as a whole that he should be open to no temptation except the desire to serve his country to the best of his ability even in the ornamental pestthat he may be given in the Constitution is of such supreme importance that I think we cannot be-too strong an [...] This goes to the root of the matteNthe disqualifications on the score of treason or on the score of offence against the State or on account of impeachment because of violation of the Constitution—it is possible that when we come to article 83 we might incorporate certain of these disqualifications or all of them as disqualifications 'for being a member of the House of Parliment but we must he c [...] In the last Budget Session of the Legislative Assembly if I remember aright this Assembly adopted the Factory Act and one of the clauses or sections in that Act was to the effect that even the medical officer of a factory when he is appointed to his post must declare to the board of directors or the management or the government what interests shares or other similar interests he ho!ds in th [...] Whit is to 'happen to the adMinistratton during the 'period which is involved between the dissolution of the olParliament and the assembly of the new Parliament?