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delivered it fresh to your door. Few grocers bothered to sell it. Today most bread is sold in supermarkets. It is prepackaged and preweighed at the bakery, so that scales in all the shops selling bread are no longer necessary.
Consumers will continue to be protected because it is still an offence for anyone to display for sale packaged bread which does not have the net weight marked on it. Of course, trading standards officers will continue to carry out inspections of packaged bread to ensure correct weight and consumers may still ask bakers to weigh unwrapped bread for them.
The other significant aspect of the Bill that I would like to bring to the attention of the Assembly is the updating of the penalty provisions. For example, the penalty under the existing legislation for a short measure offence is presently a maximum of $40 or, for subsequent offences involving fraud, a term of imprisonment. The updated provisions for such an offence will be a fine of up to $5,000 for an individual and up to $25,000 for a company. The section providing for imprisonment for fraud has been repealed because this type of punishment is not considered appropriate for offences involving the trade measurement of bread. I commend the Bill to the Assembly and I present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Jensen) adjourned.
NATIONAL CRIME AUTHORITY (TERRITORY PROVISIONS) BILL 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (11.13): Mr Speaker, I present the National Crime Authority (Territory Provisions) Bill 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The purpose of the Bill is to enable the Territory to participate in the activities of the National Crime Authority Inter-governmental Committee and to enable the authority to investigate organised crime and other relevant criminal activity in the Australian Capital Territory. This legislation was developed by the previous Government and has been reviewed and endorsed by the present Government for introduction.
The Bill forms part of a legislative scheme which provides the legal basis for the National Crime Authority to investigate breaches of State and Territory law. The first part of this legislative scheme is the National Crime Authority Act 1984 of the Commonwealth Parliament, which was enacted in June 1984 and came into operation on 1 July of that same year.
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