Senators do not know what will happen if they reject the controversial Special Development Order for Tucker’s Point hotel tomorrow.Yesterday, the Senate passed the Development and Planning Amendment Act 2011, which requires all SDOs to be subject to Parliamentary scrutiny. Senator David Burt told the Senate the law was another example of the Progressive Labour Party’s commitment to a more transparent Government.During the debate Senator Walwyn Hughes asked what would happen if an SDO for Tucker’s Point resort was rejected on Friday.He said that because it was a Government Order and not a Government Bill, the rules were not clear. With Government Bills, if the Senate reject one Government must wait 12 months before retabling it in the House of Assembly.Sen Hughes said it was not clear if the same applied when it came to Government Orders. Senator Jeanne Atherden added: “If for some reason it is rejected by the Senate I want to understand what happens. Does it go back to the House again?”Sen Burt, who tabled the Act, said he did not know but would provide the answer as soon as he did. Earlier in the evening he said the passage of the Development and Planning Amendment Act was a big step for Government.“This Government is committed to improving and increasing the standards of governance. “We have increased the powers of the Auditor General’s Office; some would say not a friend of Government’s. We have created the Office of the Ombudsman; we have created Public Access to Information legislation and have put more money aside this year for its implementation. Those are just some of the steps that we have taken.”When the Act was in the House of Assembly Environment Minister Walter Roban said all SDOs should have been subjected to such scrutiny ever since 2006 but had not been as a result of an “oversight”.Those that slipped through without Parliamentary scrutiny include the controversial Southlands development, Coco Reef resort and Dockyard cruise ship pier.However, the amendment passed last night is retroactive, meaning that those SDOs not debated are nonetheless deemed to have been made validly.It will be debated in the Senate tomorrow and The Royal Gazette will Cover it Live on our website.