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A company auditor is habituated to dealing with sums of that magnitude and accounts of that complexity. The dichotomy of this piece of legislation allows the Attorney to create a top level of association. At the moment, I think, the prescription is $150,000 in assets or turnover. The Attorney may wish to review that from time to time to take into account current financial situations.
I commend the provision to the house. It is, in fact, an adoption from the modern corporations law of the Commonwealth - from memory, clause 332. I do thank the draftsman who has worked a variant of the corporations law into this Bill at my request. I commend to the Assembly the extra test of accounting for the larger prescribed associations.
Proposed new clause agreed to.
Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole, and agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES
(AMENDMENT) BILL 1991
Debate resumed from 15 August 1991, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR STEFANIAK (4.09): This Bill is another which was developed by the previous Government. I think the current Government has merely endorsed it and brought it forward. Basically, it arises from a joint review and makes a number of amendments.
The main amendments are to section 34. As a result of this Bill, certain categories of deaths will now become subject to investigation by the coroner. We think it sensible that the coroner be notified if somebody dies as a result of an operation of a medical, surgical, dental or like nature; similarly, although this might have been put in because it is rather trendy, if somebody dies in a prison, remand centre or lockup. I do not think we have had anyone die in a local prison all that recently. At any rate, if someone does, certainly that should be subject to notification to the coroner too, because, basically, coronial inquests deal with deaths caused by anything other than natural circumstances.
The coroner should be involved in anything where there might be the slightest suspicion or the slightest hint of wrongdoing or, indeed, negligent practice. This Bill merely tightens up the procedure there. Accordingly, the Liberal Party has absolutely no problem with what was basically an Alliance Government Bill.
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