The Lexithree Modernisation Act

[Eðo Grischun]

WHEREAS the Interior Ministry is currently embarked on a mission to make changes to improve all areas of immigration, and

WHEREAS El Lexhatx E.3 was written a bit of a while ago and does not take into consideration the current and modern workings of State and Government, so

THEREFORE be it enacted by the Ziu assembled that El Lexhatx E.3, which currently reads:

3. The Minister of Interior, working with the Seneschál, shall cause the prospective immigrant to be granted an account on Wittenberg, allowing said prospective immigrant to converse with the subjects of the Kingdom gathered there. The Interior Minister shall verify that the said account is fully-enabled, and that the candidate is able to communicate using this forum with the citizens of the Kingdom. The Interior Minister shall then begin a single thread on Wittenberg introducing the prospective immigrant to the nation. The "Why I am Interested in Becoming a Talossan" essay shall be published by the Interior Minister in this introduction. The Interior Minister is further directed to remind his fellow citizens from time to time that the initiation of new citizens into Talossa is a serious matter and that questioning a prospective citizen is a patriotic obligation of all who love their King and Country.

is hereby amended to read:

3. The Minister of Interior, working with the Seneschál, the Minister of Stuff, The Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet and/or the nation's Wittmeister shall cause the prospective immigrant to be granted an account on Wittenberg, allowing said prospective immigrant to converse with the subjects of the Kingdom gathered there. The Interior Minister shall verify that the said account is fully-enabled, and that the candidate is able to communicate using this forum with the citizens of the Kingdom. The Interior Minister shall then begin a single thread on Wittenberg introducing the prospective immigrant to the nation. The "Why I am Interested in Becoming a Talossan" essay shall be published by the Interior Minister in this introduction. The Interior Minister is further directed to remind his fellow citizens from time to time that the initiation of new citizens into Talossa is a serious matter and that questioning a prospective citizen is a patriotic obligation of all who love their King and Country.

[Eðo Grischun]

Minor change.

Instead of saying "The Minister of Interior, working with the Seneschál shall ..." this makes it "The Minister of Interior, working with the Seneschál, the Minister of Stuff, The Permanent Secretary to the Cabinet and/or the nation's Wittmeister shall..."

[E.S. Bornatfiglheu]

What is the purpose, particularly, of this minor change? Is it to try and streamline the process by broadening the number of people empowered to make things happen?

I ask this because I could forsee an event where, if the pool is large enough, each link in the chain thinks that the other one is doing it. Does the buck ultimately stop with the Interior Minister?

[Eðo Grischun]

Basically, all this Bill is doing is making the law match what actually happens. The Seneschal rarely gets involved with this process. I assume the law references an old way of doing things. These days, website infrastructure falls under the remit of the offices I have added in this Bill, so Interior is much more likely to be working alongside them in this task than with just the Seneschal. It's a situation where things have changed and moved forward while parts of the law got left behind. That is to say this bill doesn't actually change anything; things have already changed while parts of the law didn't. This Bill catches the law back up to saying what we do.


And, yep, the buck stops at Interior. "Interior, working with offices, shall create account" not "All these offices shall create account".