Pursuant to section 13 of the Citizens Initiated Referenda Act 1993, I hereby give notice that:
Tim Hawkins
- has been approved to use, for the purposes of an indicative referendum petition, the wording determined in the paragraph below;
- is the promoter of the indicative referendum petition in which the wording determined in the paragraph below is to be used;
- has been approved to use a form for the purposes of the indicative referendum petition; and
That the wording of the specific question to be put to voters in the proposed indicative referendum is:
"Should the Shared Parenting Bill introduced by
Dr Muriel Newman (which creates a presumption that parents who are separated or divorced will have equal rights to custody of their children) be passed
by Parliament?"
Dated at Wellington this 9th day of August 2000.
D. G. MCGEE, Clerk of the House of Representatives.