Page 2451 - Week 11 - Thursday, 2 November 1989
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Territory. Amendments to the Act are required to facilitate the administration of the Business Franchise ("X" Videos) Bill 1989.
The amendments will give tax officers the power to inspect and, if necessary, seize any X-rated video that a tax officer believes to be connected with an offence against the tax law. This is seen as a necessary deterrent to illegal trading activities within the Territory. The amendments further expand existing provisions to ensure that all moneys due to the Territory in relation to X-rated videos are received.
The commissioner will be able to request information in respect of each application for an X-rated licence and levy penalty tax on the person who fails to renew a licence but continues to trade. These last two amendments will also apply to licences granted and renewed under the Business Franchise (Tobacco and Petroleum Products) Act 1984. I now present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Kaine) adjourned.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Whalan) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
South Africa
MR BERRY (Minister for Community Services and Health) (5.14): I would, in the adjournment debate, like to raise some issues in relation to the racist regime in South Africa. It is particularly opportune to do that because of the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kuala Lumpur. The first thing I would like to do, Mr Speaker, is to add my support to the call to continue sanctions against the regime as presented at the recent Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kuala Lumpur. I would also like to add my voice to the condemnation of Mrs Thatcher's persistent campaign for the relaxation of the sanctions in spite of the calls from the African majority for their intensification.
One other issue, Mr Speaker, that I would like to draw attention to in this debate is the law of common purpose which is practised by the racist regime. Mr Speaker, 14 of the accused in what is described as the Upington 26 murder trial have been sentenced to death for the murder in November 1985 of a municipal policeman, Mr Lucas Sethwala. They are currently waiting on death row. I would have to say, Mr Speaker, that never, even in the history of South Africa, have so many been sentenced to hang for one murder.
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