This move by the Jamaican Government represents the first attempt in a Commonwealth Caribbean country to apply a term limit to the office of Prime Minister by measuring the length of time someone has served in that office which is sensitive to the reality that there is no fixed date for election in a parliamentary system so that an election can be held at any time. While Jamaica has not had a problem with Prime Ministers staying for inordinately long periods of time in office, it appears that the intent is to impose succession planning upon political parties. The untested part of this will be the issue of lame duck status that applies to an American President in the latter part of his second term which is when he begins to lose political clout. How will that manifest itself in a parliamentary system? Perhaps, initially, in the absence of any fixed dates for elections, there appears to be a disincentive for any Prime Minister to allow Parliament to sit for two full five-year periods before advising a dissolution so as to avoid disqualification from appointment for another period, if successful. That third period could then be allowed to run for a full five years and three months before a general election is held as the Prime Minister would no longer be appointable to the office thereafter. Cabinet revolts and backbench revolts may become the way in which the lame duck status of a Prime Minister may manifest itself under such provisions in a parliamentary system. We can only speculate now.