(1) The Joint Programme Subcommittee on 3 November 2000 took a decision, in accordance with Joint Rule 216(2), that the Local Government: Municipal Structures Second Amendment Bill, 2000, be fast-tracked by, where necessary, dispensing with any House Rule or Joint Rule and shortening any period within which any step in the legislative process relating to the Bill must be completed in order to make it possible for the Bill to be passed by 24 November 2000.