Falklands : Falklands' Executive Council Report 31/01/12
Submitted by Falkland Islands News Network (Juanita Brock) 31.01.2012 (Article Archived on 14.02.2012)
Summary of Executive Council Meeting Held on 25 January 2012 by the Honourable Jan Cheek
Summary of Executive Council Meeting Held on 25 January 2012 by the Honourable Jan Cheek
At the meeting of Executive Council on 25 January 2012 there were two substitutions for members currently overseas, the Honourable Gavin Short stood in for the Honourable Dick Sawle and the Honourable Ian Hansen for the Honourable Sharon Halford.
The first of the financial papers dealt with the upgrade of some FIDF equipment and was agreed.
Additional funding was also agreed for West Falkland roads to allow the completion of some more work this season.
Agreement was given for a new special coin issue to mark the hundredth meeting of the Stanley Sports Association which will take place later this year.
The first paper in the legal and legislation section of the meeting was draft legislation to allow FIG to use independent actuaries to be engaged to carry out actuarial reviews of the pension funds. Executive Council agreed that it should be gazetted prior to presentation to Legislative Assembly. We also approved the publication of proposed Amendment to the Administration of Justice Bill intended to close the loophole created by the time limit on prosecutions for some sexual offences.
Also in this section we agreed two papers relating to the registration of bare boat charters of fishing vessels and one allowing the delegation to FIG officers of off shore drilling approvals in certain circumstances.
The final paper in this section dealt with the forthcoming census, members had some queries and suggested that one or two of the questions should be clarified and that it be made clear that anyone may choose to complete a paper copy rather than complete the census on line if they wish.
Of the policy papers we noted the FIG performance report and the abbreviated version of the Island Plan with some small modifications, and we approved both the FIDC business plan and the draft FIG IT Usage Policy.
The last paper in the policy section reported the results of the survey on time change preferences. With a clear majority of those who responded to the survey, both individuals and businesses, favouring year round summer time we agreed to make the change permanent.
A conversion of a PWD post was agreed as were new members for HMSC and the FLH board.
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