Page 3184 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 18 November 1992

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"(4) A person shall not, without reasonable excuse, provide false or misleading information in a notice under subsection (1) or (3).

Penalty:

(a) in the case of a natural person - $10,000 or imprisonment for 2 years;

(b) in the case of a corporation - $50,000.".

This amendment sets up the registration provisions to ensure public control of who is getting into the industry.

MR STEVENSON (12.03): I take the opportunity to mention the major reason why I moved to adjourn the debate. About half an hour ago I was given nine pages of amendments by Mr Connolly. He said that when he looked for me in the Assembly yesterday I was not here. I was here. It was only when Assembly members started acting, as someone upstairs said, like children - I said, "No, children do not act like that" - that I decided to leave and go and do some work upstairs. I did listen to the debate on the loudspeaker. However, if Mr Connolly is not sure where I am, I am on the first floor. As you get out of the lift, you turn right.

MR CORNWELL (12.04): I have some questions to ask, Madam Speaker. There are people who have not seen these amendments on the floor of the house until now. I would like to know why we have such a wide-ranging number of people under proposed subsection 3B(3). It states:

Subsection (2) does not prevent inspection of information relating to the address of the premises by -

(a) a police officer;

(b) a public servant;

(d) a person in a prescribed class of persons;

... ... ...

Would you elaborate on the last two, Mr Attorney, please?

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (12.04): Madam Speaker, as we said in the in-principle debate, I think the way we have got to this Bill is a model for the way we should deal with contentious social issues in this legislation. We have had round table conferences with interested persons. The two opposition spokespersons have had this material for a week or so. I understand that it has been through the Opposition. I do not know what happens in the opposition parties, but we have gone through this in some detail.

The purpose of the registration clause as a whole is to ensure that we have some public control as to who gets into the industry. This is going well beyond the deregulatory approach and saying that we should know who is the industry, but we should not license. The information will be public. The public can know who is involved in the industry. That is an important point. But it is felt that the

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