Page 3194 - Week 12 - Wednesday, 18 November 1992
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Bill, by leave, taken as a whole
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (12.24), by leave: I move:
Clause 2, page 1, line 6, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:
Commencement
"2. (1) Section 1 and this section commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.
"(2) The remaining provisions commence on a day, or respective days, fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.
"(3) If a provision referred to in subsection (2) has not commenced before the end of the period of 6 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette, that provision, by force of this subsection, commences on the first day after the end of that period.".
Clauses 7 and 8, page 2, line 17, omit the clauses.
The first amendment inserts the standard commencement provision into the Bill.
The second relates to clauses 7 and 8 and seeks to remove them as they are unnecessary, as set out in the explanatory memorandum. Clause 7, amending the Public Health Act, is unnecessary because the relevant provision in that Act is already apt to enable the appointment of inspectors for health purposes for the prostitution industry. Clause 8 is unnecessary because the name of the Sexually Transmitted Diseases Act 1956 is already changed, because amendments to enable the prescription of diseases for the purposes of that Act are a matter of health policy and are not necessary for the legislation regulating prostitution, and because other amendments to the Prostitution Bill, which we have already dealt with, dealing with commercial sexual services involving persons who are infected with a sexually transmitted disease, cover the situation.
Amendments agreed to.
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