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Art. 126

171.10ParlAFederal ActDec 1, 2003Original source
  1. The responsible committee in each council shall decide whether to endorse a petition or whether it shall request its council not to endorse the petition.
  2. If the subject of the petition can be presented in the form of a proposal relating to a matter pending for consideration, the committee shall report on the petition to the council when it is dealing with that business. The committee shall decide either to submit a proposal on the matter or dispense with a proposal. The petition shall be abandoned without a council decision as soon as the matter has been dealt with.
  3. Following the conclusion of the consideration of a petition, the Parliamentary Services shall notify the petitioners as to whether their concerns have been taken into account.
  4. The presidents of the committees responsible for the preliminary examination in each council may respond directly to a petition if:
    1. its aim cannot be achieved by a parliamentary initiative, a procedural request or a proposal;
    2. its content is clearly absurd, querulous or offensive.

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