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Question put:

That the Bill, as amended, be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 16  NOES, 1

Mr Berry Mr Stevenson
Mr Collaery
Mr Connolly
Mr Duby
Ms Follett
Mrs Grassby
Mr Humphries
Mr Jensen
Mr Kaine
Dr Kinloch
Ms Maher
Mr Moore
Mrs Nolan
Mr Prowse
Mr Stefaniak
Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

REGISTRATION OF INTERESTS IN GOODS BILL 1990

[COGNATE BILL:

REGISTRATION OF INTERESTS IN GOODS (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 1990]

Debate resumed from 29 May 1990, on motion by Mr Collaery:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MR SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with order of the day No. 6, Registration of Interests in Goods (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1990? There being no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that in debating order of the day No. 5 they may also address their remarks to order of the day No. 6.

MR CONNOLLY (5.19): Mr Speaker, the Opposition supports this legislation. As explained by the Attorney-General in the presentation speech, at present the law provides no protection to a purchaser who buys a car or any other chattel in good faith and who is unaware that the goods are subject to a security held by a finance company or other creditor. The law says that persons cannot transfer to another a better title than they themselves possess, and so

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