Page 883 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 25 July 1989
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Speaker, I think that is just about the end of my time, and I conclude my remarks on that positive note.
MR SPEAKER: The time for this discussion has concluded.
Sitting suspended from 5.00 to 8.00 pm
POLICE OFFENCES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989 - SELECT COMMITTEE
Report
MR STEFANIAK (8.00): Mr Speaker, I present the report of the Select Committee on the Police Offences (Amendment) Bill 1989, together with copies of the minutes of proceedings of the committee and copies of the transcript of evidence.
Let me take a slightly novel stance to start with and actually thank some of the people involved before I go into the substantive report. This committee had about 21 days to report. With a lot of reports in this Assembly there has been a fairly short time frame. I want to particularly thank our committee secretary, Karin Malmberg, for her efforts and also the other staff here who were involved in the photocopying and collating of the report. Karin especially was a very dutiful and helpful secretary in a rather difficult area with a fairly difficult committee. There were a number of problems such as photocopiers going down at the last minute. A lot of work was put into this report in the time allotted, especially by Karin Malmberg. On behalf of my colleagues, Mr Collaery and Carmel Maher, I would like to express appreciation for the effort she put in.
Mr Collaery: Hear, hear!
Ms Maher: Hear, hear!
MR STEFANIAK: Mr Speaker, once upon a time Canberra was a very quiet, sleepy little country town and a lot safer than it is now. I suppose I can speak from experience in relation to move-on powers, apart from my experience in the law. When I was a young 16-year-old, I was moved on by the local ACT police force.
Mr Stevenson: Was that under the Gaming Act?
MR STEFANIAK: I am not too sure what Act it was, but I obeyed, so I did not get arrested. The brief history in relation to this is that since the formation of the Territory there have been move-on powers in the ACT up until 1987. Early in that year, section 19A - the last remaining move-on power, which was a very general one, under the Gaming and Betting Act in its application to the Territory - was repealed, along with other sections in that particular Act.
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