viii. a referendum on the new draft Constitution shall be held within 3 months of the conclusion of the debate; ix. in the event of the draft Constitution being approved in the referendum it shall be gazetted within 1 month of the date of the referendum; and x. the draft Constitution shall be introduced in Parliament no later than 1 month after the expiration of the period of 30 days from the date of its gazetting. In carrying out its mandate, the Select Committee was guided by the following principles: a) That all decisions during its deliberations were to be by consensus. b) That meetings of the Committee or its sub-committees were deemed official only when all the parties in the inclusive Government were represented, provided that in cases were one party was not represented, the co-chair of that party’s representatives allowed such a meeting to proceed as an official meeting in their absence. c) That all Select Committee meetings would be co-chaired. 10 The Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) Report to Parliament, February 2013