Mi­nor­i­ty Leader of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly (THA) Ash­worth Jack yes­ter­day called on Chief Sec­re­tary Orville Lon­don to re­sign af­ter pre­sent­ing an "il­le­gal" bill to amend the THA Act. Jack led a boy­cott of yes­ter­day's de­bate af­ter the PNM-con­trolled As­sem­bly de­cid­ed to pro­ceed with the de­bate on a bill to amend the Con­sti­tu­tion to pro­vide for the en­trench­ment of cer­tain pro­vi­sions re­lat­ing to the THA and an Act to re­peal and re­place the THA Act to pro­vide for the re-es­tab­lish­ment of the To­ba­go House of As­sem­bly to pro­vide its pow­ers and func­tions and re­lat­ed mat­ters.

Jack said some­thing must be wrong with Lon­don if he de­cid­ed to pro­ceed with the de­bate know­ing that it was il­le­gal. He said if he didn't know the bill was il­le­gal then he should not be Chief Sec­re­tary. Jack then called for the im­me­di­ate res­ig­na­tion of Lon­don as Chief Sec­re­tary. Jack said the de­bate "vi­o­lates" Sec­tion 29(4) the THA Act. He in­sist­ed yes­ter­day's de­bate was "in breach of the law. "It is there­fore il­le­gal to have the de­bate," he added. Jack said the process to adopt the bills was flawed.