SMOKING LEGISLATION FOR MEMBERSHIP CLUBS

Motion Text

That this House welcomes the Government's consultation on legislation to provide smoke-free environments; supports the intention to exempt membership clubs which generally have done a good job of listening to and balancing varying views of members in this sensitive area; believes that the proposal to enshrine a mandatory annual ballot on the issue is needlessly bureaucratic and expensive; and calls on the Government to drop the ballot in favour of an annual review at the club's Annual General Meeting which would better meet the Government's general deregulation objectives.