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OP 16/00

ORDER PAPER

MONDAY 4 DECEMBER 2000

The Assembly to sit at 10.30 am

1. PRAYERS

2. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BUSINESS

Second Stage - Adoption (Intercountry Aspects) Bill (NIA Bill 8/00)

[Minister of Health, Social Services and Public Safety]

Final Stage - Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill (NIA Bill 8/99)

[Minister of Enterprise, Trade and Investment]

3. STATUTORY COMMITTEE BUSINESS

- Motion - Extension of Committee Stage - Family Law Bill (NIA Bill 4/00)

Proposed: That in accordance with Standing Order 31(4) the period referred to in Standing Order 31(2) be extended to Friday, 27 April 2001 in relation to the Committee Stage of the Family Law Bill (NIA Bill 4/00).

[Chairperson, Committee for Finance and Personnel]

4. QUESTION TIME

4.1 Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister

4.2 Culture, Arts and Leisure

4.3 Agriculture and Rural Development

5. PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS

- Motion - Bonded Labour

Proposed: That this Assembly is appalled by the United Nations' estimate that some 20 million people are living in slavery around the world under the bonded labour system; expresses its concern over the repeated failures of Governments like Pakistan, India and Nepal to take adequate measures to eradicate the use of bonded labour in their countries; calls on the British and Irish Governments to work with their European Union partners to sponsor a resolution at the next United Nations Commission on Human Rights condemning this practice; and urges the International Labour Organisation to ensure at its Conference in June 2001 that independent and comprehensive surveys into the extend of bonded labour are carried out in countries where it persists.

[Mr E McGrady MP]

6. ADJOURNMENT

*SR Number and Title*	*Responsible Committee*	*End of Statutory Period*	*Date and Source of Objection*
SR 303/2000 Food Irradiation Provision Regulations (NI) 2000	Health, Social Services and Public Safety	05/12/00	None
SR 312/2000 Compulsory Registration of Title Order (NI) 2000	Finance and Personnel	05/12/00	None
SR 321/2000 The Social Fund Winter Fuel Payment (Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2000	Social Development	05/12/00	None
SR 324/2000 The Statutory Maternity Pay (General) (Modification and Amendment) Regulations (NI) 2000	Social Development	05/12/00	None
SR 330/2000 Route U1071 Steeple Road, Antrim (Abandonment) Order (NI) 2000	Regional Development	19/12/00	None
SR 337/2000 Torrens Gardens, Belfast (Abandonment) Order (NI) 2000	Regional Development	19/12/00	None