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SUBORDINATE LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 3) 1994
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (10.44): Madam Speaker, I present the Subordinate Laws (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 details requirements for the notification of a subordinate law in the Gazette, its tabling in the Legislative Assembly and its possible disallowance by the Assembly. The Subordinate Laws (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1994 introduced, among other things, amendments of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 which were intended to simplify the process of gazetting disallowable instruments and determinations of fees or charges and to make that process consistent with the process for gazetting all other legislation.
However, recent legal advice suggests that the intention has not been fully achieved. This view is that the Subordinate Laws (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1994 did not displace the requirement in some empowering Acts and subordinate laws that a disallowable instrument or determination of a fee or charge be notified by publishing it in full in the Gazette. The Subordinate Laws (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1994 removes any doubt about the application of the simplified process of notifying the making of a subordinate law in the Gazette, as provided for in subsection 6(2), and includes a saving provision to ensure the validity of prior notifications of instruments where the simplified process was utilised. I commend the Bill to the Assembly and present the explanatory memorandum.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
LIQUOR (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1994
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (10.46): Madam Speaker, I present the Liquor (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
This Bill has taken a little time coming, but Opposition members may learn that it is better to be slow and careful and consider the full implications of legislation, rather than rush things through. More of that later.
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