ABSTRACT

The Memorandum is a useful guide as to what is intended to be achieved by the proposed legislation as well as telling the ordinary reader what the Bill seeks to do.1 It should include ‘a forecast of any changes in public section manpower requirements expected to result from the passing of the Bill; it must be framed in non-technical language and contain nothing of an argumentative character.’2 In some jurisdictions, the Memorandum is placed at the end of the Bill as Objects and Reasons.