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The Bill also provides for a number of amendments of a housekeeping nature to update the penalties for offences and to remove redundant provisions which are now dealt with under the mutual recognition legislative framework. The development of uniform procedures in medical practitioners registration legislation across all jurisdictions has been a landmark exercise and, as a consequence, it has been necessary to make some amendments.
The Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation has also made a number of comments relating to the Bill. Madam Speaker, I wish to thank the committee for those comments. As a consequence, the following government amendments are proposed: The removal of paragraph 35(d) will bring the transitional provisions into line with the policy directions agreed to by Australian Health Ministers. The proposed new subsection 30(1) will provide for an expanded definition of the term "unsatisfactory professional conduct". This will enable disciplinary action, including cancellation or suspension of registration, to be taken when a person's conduct has an adverse impact upon his or her capacity to practise medicine or on the reputation of the medical profession. The inclusion of a right to review a refusal by the Medical Board to re-register a person under the new section 29C and the inclusion of a right to review a decision of the Medical Board to impose conditions upon the registration of an intern under the proposed new subsection 20(1).
In addition to these amendments, the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation identified the need to correct the spelling of the term "administratrix". Where it appears in the Bill, the corrections will be done by way of a Clerk's amendment. Madam Speaker, I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum for these amendments, and I commend the amendments to the chamber.
Before sitting down, I pick up a point that Mrs Carnell made in her speech in relation to the recent repeal of the Health Services Act in the ACT. Mrs Carnell knows, and understands very clearly, why the Act had to be repealed. If it were not for the constant harassment by the Liberal Party of the Board of Health, that board would still be in place. That is a matter that is on public record and something that will not go away, despite her protestations.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
MOTOR TRAFFIC (ALCOHOL AND DRUGS) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1993
Debate resumed from 25 February 1993, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR HUMPHRIES (4.37): I advise the house that the Liberal Party will be supporting this Bill because it makes an appropriate and sensible amendment to the law.
Mr Berry: Twice in a row! Have you some too highs, too lows, too quicks, too slows to go with it?
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