Deputy Majority Leader, Alfred Kwame Agbesi has said concerns raised by the Minority about a legislative instrument for the conduct of this year’s general elections are unnecessary.

The instrument which is expected to regulate the conduct of the elections started its 21 day maturity journey on Friday.

The subsidiary legislation committee studied the content of the instrument which included manual voting if the biometric machines fail to verify a voter.

The Minority has raised a number issue with the instrument but the Majority wants the instrument to be passed in its current state and without the required supporting documents.

The Minority is demanding a withdrawal of the instrument which they claim does not contain penalties for erring presiding officers.

A member of the Subsidiary Legislation Committee of Parliament, Osei Ameyaw said given the transpositional errors that dogged the 2012 election, any document that has no penalties for negligent presiding officers should be rejected.

But the Deputy Majority Leader says their “concerns are misplaced”.

“If they are ready and available to be laid, then the speaker allows it to be laid. After that they will ask for copies, if they are not given copies then it will mean that the papers were not ready, they were not available to be laid.

“But in this case, you don’t raise the concern before the papers are laid. Once the clerk at table had given indication that a sufficient copy of the papers has been made available, then the majority leader or his deputy will lay it,” he added.