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The Bill makes two changes to evidentiary provisions in the principal Act. Firstly, a written statement in the form of a print-out issuing from an approved breathalyser will be evidence of the particulars contained in it. The Drager Alcotest 7110 issues print-outs. The particulars to be stated in such a print-out are prescribed in the regulations and include matters such as the date, start time and location of the test; particulars of the test subject and the police involved; test results; and so forth.
Secondly, the words "prima facie" and "and of the facts on which they are based" will be omitted from the Act wherever they occur. These words do not add to, or detract from, the standard or burden of proof otherwise required for establishing evidence under the relevant provisions of the principal Act. The Bill also treats the instruments already approved under the Act as deemed to be approved under the proposed amendments.
I commend the Bill to the Assembly and, Mr Speaker, I present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Stefaniak) adjourned.
CULTURAL ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report
Debate resumed from 21 June 1991, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the report be noted.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.15): Yesterday I tabled the Government's response to the committee's report and today I will speak to that. I am in the unusual position of having been the chairman whose duty it was to report on behalf of the select committee - - -
Mr Connolly: A very good report.
MR WOOD: Thank you. And now, a few short months later, I am the responsible Minister to whom has fallen the task of presenting the Government's formal response to the committee's recommendations. Indeed, I believe that I presented that report on the day I became Minister. I was so involved in the process that I preferred to take that course. I see no conflict in all this process.
The select committee's recommendations reflect the personal and political preferences of its members and of the many members of the public who gave evidence before it. The committee's final report was not simply a catalogue of the opinions and desires of its chairperson. Rather, the report represents an expression of community needs and priorities. The fact that I happen to concur with most of
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