In legislative debate, a wrecking amendment (also called a poison pill amendment or killer amendment) is an amendment made by a legislator who disagrees...
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it. It is sometimes called a wrecking amendment, but the term wrecking amendment more often denotes a type of amendment to the bill itself, rather than...
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poison pill shareholders rights amendments inserted in corporate charters as a takeover defence, and wrecking amendments added to legislative bills. During...
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Civil Partnership Act 2004 (section Amendments)
a majority of 18. Like the Leigh amendment, opponents considered the O'Cathain amendment to be a wrecking amendment, and like Leigh, O'Cathain herself...
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there have been 106 amendments of the Constitution of India since it was first enacted in 1950. There are three types of amendments to the Constitution...
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his amendment at the last minute, on report stage ("consideration"). Frank Harris, a contemporary, wrote that Labouchere proposed it as a wrecking amendment...
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Suicide pill, a physical pill for suicide by poison Poison pill amendment or wrecking amendment, an addition to a legislative bill that renders it ineffective...
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in the hope of causing the popular one to be rejected (a type of wrecking amendment). In English law, the long title of a bill or act of parliament states...
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offering of reasoned amendments to a motion for second reading of a Government bill, provided such amendments are not wrecking amendments designed to destroy...
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Conservative MP Sir Alan Duncan, who dubbed it a wrecking amendment. He voted against recent amendments to the Health and Social Care Bill which has made...
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