The Fiji parliament's sector committee on Justice, Law and Order can't begin its review of the government's Reconciliation and Unity Bill until its finds a new chairman.
Its former chairman, Ratu Rakuita Vakalalabure, is in Suva Prison serving a six-year sentence for taking an illegal oath to become the purported attorney general in George Speight's failed administration during the coup.
The secretary general to parliament, Mary Chapman, had told Radio Legend she will call a meeting of the committee with its first task being to appoint a new chairman.
The committee will then call for public submissions on the Bill before presenting its report to the August sitting of parliament.
The 15-member committee has seven members from the government, six from the opposition and two from the Senate.
The Fiji Labour Party says its members will boycott all sessions of the committee dealing with the Reconciliation and Unity Bill.
But the committee will still be able to carry on its work because it will have a quorum.
