Page 960 - Week 04 - Tuesday, 19 April 1994
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MR HUMPHRIES: They can continue to look at the Commonwealth roll if they wish and they will get almost everybody who is on the ACT roll. It seems to me to be somewhat nugatory to suggest that we should restrict it here but not restrict it there. Madam Speaker, I think the onus should be on the commissioner to have a reason for refusing to supply the information, not the other way round.
Amendments negatived.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (5.21), by leave: Madam Speaker, as a consequence of Mr Humphries's amendments to clause 22 not being passed, I shall move the amendments which I foreshadowed. They are amendments a. and b. on the gold coloured sheets. I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum and I move:
a. Page 15, line 10, proposed new subsection 55(2), omit "may,", substitute "shall, on request and".
b. Page 15, line 19, proposed new subsection 56(2), omit "may,", substitute "shall, on request and".
Madam Speaker, as I said when I foreshadowed these amendments, the purpose of them is to make it mandatory for the commissioner to supply the printed rolls to a person where the commissioner is satisfied that the person requires the extract for an approved purpose. They also make it mandatory for the commissioner to supply roll extracts in electronic or microfiche form to a person, again where the commissioner is satisfied that the person requires the extract for an approved purpose.
MR STEVENSON (5.23): I might, once again, mention a point. This would be the roll through the year or the years. Late enrolments are not going to be readily available to people, for the same reason. Mr Green looks puzzled, but I spoke to him earlier about the point. He said that the Bill required that someone could attend at the commissioner's office and look at the updates on the roll immediately before an election, but that does not allow them to be published and sent out. If you wanted to do a detailed analysis of the last minute, last day or last week enrollees, it would be far better to do it outside the commissioner's office.
Mr Berry: I raise a point of order, Madam Speaker. Reference to advisers in this place and to what their expressions may or may not be is more than a little out of order. Speakers are really the only people with any authority in the place.
MR STEVENSON: I think it is reasonable enough.
MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Berry, that is quite correct. Would you restrict your comments to your fellow members, please, Mr Stevenson.
MR STEVENSON: Indeed, Madam Speaker.
Amendments agreed to.
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