Tuesday, 20 December 2022

Opening of Parliament

Opening of Parliament by commission

Proceedings commenced at 11:03 am.

The Clerk: The Governor has issued the following proclamation, which I will read to you:

I, Linda Dessau AC, Governor of the State of Victoria, acting under sections 8 and 20 of the Constitution Act 1975 and all other powers vested in me, fix Tuesday 20 December 2022 at 11.00 am as the time for the commencement and holding of the first session of the Sixtieth Parliament of Victoria for the dispatch of business, at Parliament House, Melbourne. The Members of the Legislative Council and the Members of the Legislative Assembly are required to attend at that time and place.

Given under my Hand and the Seal of the State of Victoria, at Melbourne, this 13th day of December 2022.

And it is signed by Her Excellency the Governor and the Premier.

The Commissioner, the Honourable Justice Karin Emerton, President of the Court of Appeal, entered the chamber and was conducted to the chair by the Serjeant-at-Arms.

The Commissioner: Members of the Legislative Assembly, the Governor has caused a commission to be issued under the seal of the state constituting her commissioners to do in her name all that is necessary to be performed in this Parliament. This will more fully appear in the commission, which will now be read by the Clerk.

The Clerk: The commission reads as follows and is addressed to the Honourable Justice Anne Ferguson, Chief Justice of Victoria, and the Honourable Justice Karin Emerton, President of the Court of Appeal:

Acting under all available powers and with the consent of the Premier, I commission each of you, on my behalf, to open the first session of the Sixtieth Parliament at 11.00 am on the morning of Tuesday the twentieth day of December 2022 and to do all other things that it is necessary or usual for me to do on the opening of a new Parliament (other than to give my speech).

GIVEN under my hand and the Seal of Victoria on this 19th day of December 2022.

It is signed by Her Excellency the Governor and the Premier.