Page 2220 - Week 11 - Tuesday, 31 October 1989
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generally in legislation with specific reference to the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
MR STEFANIAK (4.19): Perhaps I should just say something on that at this point. It is the intention of my party to have several of our recommendations on penalty dealt with today. The three we see as the most important that can be dealt with today are my recommendation 13 on a new clause 47A; recommendation 16, which, if agreed to, would not affect the question Mr Whalan and Mr Collaery refer to; and finally my recommendations 26 and 27 which relate to what we certainly regard as the most blatant and dangerous breach one could make of this Act, where the penalty, we believe, is inappropriate with the rest of the Act. That, I think, is something that can be dealt with today.
In relation to the rest of my proposed amendments and the amendments of my party in relation to penalty - and those are amendments 15 and 17 to 25 - we do not have any problem with those being looked at by the committee. They are really more in the form of adjustments which can be dealt with by the community generally on penalty. I would flag, however, the fact that, should there be any huge problems, we would reserve the right to bring any of those back before the Assembly by way of a further Bill if the need arose. However, we have no objection to those particular ones being looked at by the committee along with some suggestions Mr Collaery has made and along with the question of penalties for this legislation generally.
Clause agreed to.
Clause 29 agreed to.
Clause 30 (Duties of employees)
MR STEFANIAK (4.20): I move:
Page 13, lines 32-33, omit paragraph 2(a), substitute "(a) between the employer and his or her employees; or".
Unlike Mrs Grassby, I do not think I was inoculated with a gramophone record when I was born, and I would be terribly repetitious if for the third time I were to reiterate our opposition to the inclusion of involved unions. I merely emphasise what I have said. I am very concerned that Mr Collaery and his party have seen fit not to go back on their stance of last week. Again, I urge members to agree with this committee recommendation.
Question put:
That the amendment be agreed to.
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