Thank you, Minister, and to the chair, and Mr. Owen.
It will have legal effect. At face value, it's quite clear what the clause is attempting to achieve. It is setting a rule that will, of course, recur henceforth with a tail end that is, in a sense, the start-up of the provision. Once 2009 comes around, assuming the legislation operates according to plan, that part of the provision will simply be spent thereafter. I think the legislative intent is, on its face, quite clear that the general rule will be that every four years there will be an election on the third Monday of October, but for the first election, for the reasons given by the minister--and he has contextualized them--this particular date, which occurs before the four-year mark, has been chosen.