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MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (5.07): Madam Speaker, I move the amendment circulated in my name, as foreshadowed. It deals with a point picked up by the Scrutiny of Bills Committee and reads as follows:
Page 7, line 29, clause 21, proposed new section 57A, add the following subsections:
"(2) The Minister shall publish in the Gazette notice of his or her approval of the form of an instrument under subsection (1).
"(3) A notice under subsection (2) shall include the text of the approved form.
"(4) A notice under subsection (2) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.
"(5) Where there is no approved form for an instrument under this Act, the instrument shall be framed to the satisfaction of the Registrar.".
MADAM SPEAKER: I understand that you wish to present the supplementary memorandum.
MR CONNOLLY: Yes.
Amendment agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1994
Debate resumed from 15 September 1994, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition) (5.08): Madam Speaker, the Liberal Party will be supporting this Bill. It is a sensible piece of legislation. It cleans up a bit of a mess that was left after the Board of Health was abolished in rather quick time. Unfortunately that has meant that respective Ministers for Health have ended up with a quite large amount of administrative duties that are not appropriate. Unfortunately, as duties cannot be delegated, as powers and other things can, the Minister must have had some fairly interesting times trying to administer this piece of legislation.
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