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CRIMES (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 5) 1991
Recommittal
MR COLLAERY (6.18): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion concerning reconsideration of the Crimes (Amendment) Bill (No. 5).
Leave granted.
MR COLLAERY: I thank members. Mr Speaker, I move:
That the Crimes (Amendment) Bill (No. 5) be recommitted and that -
(1) the resolutions of the Assembly agreeing to
(a) the amendments moved by Mr Collaery; and
(b) the Bill as amended, be rescinded; and
(2) consideration of the Bill at the detail stage recommence forthwith.
The reason for this is that I circulated two amendments at the time the Bill was being debated. The Bill had been before the house for some considerable time. The amendments were to take account of advice from the Attorney to render the Bill consistent with the Children's Services Act. Two amendments were presented to the house to do that, one in one fashion and one in another fashion. The one in the second fashion, prepared by the parliamentary drafting office, was the better one; but, unfortunately, both were voted on.
They both have the same effect and I simply ask members, on the advice of Parliamentary Counsel, whether they would allow amendments Nos 1, 2 and 3 as moved to stand and give me leave to withdraw amendment No. 4. I understand that members have a copy of these sheets.
Members: No.
MR COLLAERY: They do not? I thought they had been circulated in the chamber.
Mr Moore: Why don't we come back to that?
MR COLLAERY: We will come back to it, if they have not been circulated. I thought they had been circulated.
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (6.20): Mr Speaker, the Government will support this motion. This is a classic example of the problems of legislating on the run. This problem arose through the habit of back-of-the-envelope style amendments and multiple amendments moved by a single member. We had so much paper flying around in the Assembly on the day that we voted on two separate but
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