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CRIMINAL INJURIES COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT)
BILL (NO. 2) 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (10.52): Mr Speaker, I present the Criminal Injuries Compensation (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Mr Speaker, the Criminal Injuries Compensation (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1991 amends the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1983 to clarify the references to the Registrar in that Act. The Magistrates and Coroner's Courts (Registrar) Act 1991 altered the titles of the Clerk and Deputy Clerk of the Magistrates and Coroner's Courts to Registrar and Deputy Registrar and made consequential amendments to other Acts, including the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1983.
An unintended result is that the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act contains two definitions of "Registrar", one with reference to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, who performs most of the substantive functions under the Act, and the other to the Registrar or Deputy Registrar of the Magistrates Court. The references to the Registrar in the Act are, as a consequence, somewhat unclear. The Bill removes the definitions of "Registrar" in the Act and inserts into the appropriate provisions words which indicate where the Registrar of the Supreme Court is meant and where the Registrar of the Magistrates Court is meant.
I should add that a commonsense reading of the Act as it presently stands should not cause any difficulties with the ongoing consideration of matters under the Act. However, in the interests of clarity the references in the Act need to be clarified quickly. This is a Bill which makes purely technical amendments in order to cure a defect in the substantive Act.
I present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Collaery) adjourned.
BAIL BILL 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (10.54): Mr Speaker, I present the Bail Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
It is a fundamental tenet of our common law tradition that a person is presumed innocent until proven guilty by due process of law. A considerable time may elapse between a
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