Page 4797 - Week 13 - Wednesday, 11 November 2009
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the date of registration under section 8 of the act. If a couple chooses to make a declaration, the date of effect will be the date on which the declaration was made. This amendment is connected with my later amendment No 4.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 8, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 9 and 10, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Proposed new clause 10A.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Minister for Energy and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (11.19): I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4908].
This amendment inserts a new clause 10A in the bill, simply to insert into section 13 of the act a reference to new paragraph 8A(2)(b) which requires the provision of information relating to the people entering into the civil partnership by making a declaration. This is an amendment that merely corrects an omission of this reference.
Proposed new clause 10A agreed to.
Clauses 11 to 15, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, amendments 1.1 and 1.2, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, amendment 1.3.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Minister for Energy and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (11.20): I move amendment No 4 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4908].
This amendment inserts a new amendment 1.3 into schedule 1, part 1.2 of the bill. Part 1.2 relates to amendments to the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Regulation 1998. The new amendment 1.3 inserts requirements for information that accounts for the manner in which the civil partnership is entered into. If the couple chooses to register, the information entered into the register must be the date and place of registration. If the couple chooses to make declarations, the information must be the date and place of the declaration and the name of at least one witness.
This provision effectively puts in place the provisions that have been announced by the Tasmanian government that allow for the date of effect of the civil partnership to occur either through the ceremony, if the couple choose a ceremony, or through the registration process, through the declaration process, and that declaration can in effect occur prior to formal registration in the Registrar-General’s Office.
Amendment agreed to.
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