Page 3652 - Week 12 - Tuesday, 28 October 2014

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Question put:

That the amendment be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 9

Noes 8

Mr Barr

Ms Gallagher

Mr Coe

Ms Lawder

Ms Berry

Mr Gentleman

Mr Doszpot

Mr Smyth

Dr Bourke

Ms Porter

Mrs Dunne

Mr Wall

Ms Burch

Mr Rattenbury

Mr Hanson

Mr Corbell

Mrs Jones

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Question put:

That clause 9, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted—

Ayes 9

Noes 8

Mr Barr

Ms Gallagher

Mr Coe

Ms Lawder

Ms Berry

Mr Gentleman

Mr Doszpot

Mr Smyth

Dr Bourke

Ms Porter

Mrs Dunne

Mr Wall

Ms Burch

Mr Rattenbury

Mr Hanson

Mr Corbell

Mrs Jones

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole and agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Amendment Bill 2014

Debate resumed from 15 May 2014, on motion by Ms Gallagher:

That this bill be agreed to in principle.

MRS JONES (Molonglo) (12.01): I rise today to speak to the Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Amendment Bill 2014 as shadow minister for mental health. I am pleased that this bill is being debated today. We will be supporting the bill. That is not to say that it has nothing that it could improve on. However, after the sector has experienced an extraordinarily long consultation process of seven years to get us to today, it being a significant piece of legislation and the aim being to update and modernise original legislation, we support this on the whole. Although many in the


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