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The end result will be that the bill, when enacted, and the Australian dangerous goods code will form a single, comprehensive set of laws for the road transport of dangerous goods. I thank members for their contributions. I commend the bill to the Assembly.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Detail stage

Clauses 1 to 27, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 28.

MR COE (Ginninderra) (5:42): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4256].

As I said in my speech earlier, we think that the strict liability clause is going a bit too far. We seek to remove that clause from the bill.

MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (5:42): As I indicated, the government had proposed an amendment along similar lines, so the government accepts the wisdom of the scrutiny committee in relation to the appropriateness of the strict liability offence in this circumstance. The government will support Mr Coe’s amendment.

MS BRESNAN (Brindabella) (5:43): The Greens will also be supporting Mr Coe’s amendment. As Mr Stanhope said, the amendments do pick up and address key concerns of the scrutiny of bills committee. We will be supporting them.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 28, as amended, agreed to.

Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole.

MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (5.43), by leave: I move amendments Nos 2 to 5 circulated in my name together. [see schedule 2 at page 4256]. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments. As I indicated, these amendments arise out of comments made by the scrutiny of bills committee in its review of this particular bill. They are issues that go to respecting common law writing and self-incrimination in the context of a criminal investigation.

Amendment No 3 goes to the recognition that a competent authority must be satisfied on reasonable grounds in relation to matters about which it must be satisfied before


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