Page 1136 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (12.06): Madam Speaker, I move Government amendment No. 40. It reads as follows:
40. Page 61, line 8, proposed new subsection 156(4), omit "polling day", substitute "the day on which the poll for the election was required to be held".
This amendment is required to ensure that this section of the Bill does not have the unintended result of extending the right to vote to a person who might be entitled to vote on a date to which polling has been adjourned but who was not entitled to vote on the ordinary polling day. As it stands, the use of the defined phrase "polling day" would have that unintended effect. The amendment will ensure that the only persons who can vote on a day to which polling has been adjourned are those who are entitled to vote on a normal polling day.
MR HUMPHRIES (12.07): Madam Speaker, I do not oppose this amendment. I might indicate that I was unwilling to grant leave to bring together a number of these amendments, basically, because I had no notice or very little notice, and I do not know which ones the Chief Minister wants to bring together.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Humphries, we are talking about amendment No. 40. Would you please proceed?
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I am trying to expedite matters by explaining what we might do - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: You do not explain while addressing an amendment. If you want to seek to explain, you do it under standing order 46 or 47, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Okay. Fine, Madam Speaker. It will take twice as long.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (12.08): I move Government amendment No. 41, which reads:
41. Page 61, line 9, proposed new subsection 156(5), omit "Part VIII, IX or this Part", substitute "Part VIII or IX".
Again this is a matter of correcting a drafting error. It is to ensure that, where appropriate, references to polling day include references to days to which polling has been adjourned under the new section. Related amendments are also made to proposed new sections 123 and 155.
Amendment agreed to.
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