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DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 5) 1992
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (10.41): I present the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill (No. 5) 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR BERRY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, this Bill is the third in the package of three amending Bills. It amends the Drugs of Dependence Act 1989, which controls the manufacture and sale of drugs of dependence. Drugs of dependence, prohibited substances, and drugs of dependence the manufacture of which is controlled by provisions in the Act are listed in schedules 1, 2 and 3 respectively.
Schedule 1, in which are listed drugs of dependence for human therapeutic use, relates to schedule 8 of the National Health and Medical Research Council's standard for the uniform scheduling of drugs and poisons. Schedule 2 to the Act lists prohibited drugs of dependence for which there is no human therapeutic use. Schedule 3 to the Act lists those drugs of dependence the manufacture of which is controlled by provisions in the Act. These substances are also listed in schedule 1, but not all schedule 1 drugs are in schedule 3 because the manufacture of many of them is regulated by the Narcotic Drugs Act 1967.
The purpose of the Bill is to transfer these schedules from the Act to the Drugs of Dependence Regulations. This will facilitate the adoption of the recommendations of the National Health and Medical Research Council in regard to drugs of dependence listed in schedule 8 of the standard. The opportunity has also been taken to facilitate prosecutions in regard to offences against the Act by the introduction of evidentiary certificates. I present the explanatory memorandum for the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill (No. 5) 1992.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Carnell) adjourned.
WORKERS' COMPENSATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (10.43): I present the Workers' Compensation (Amendment) Bill 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR BERRY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, the Workers' Compensation Act provides for compensation of workers who suffer personal injuries arising out of, or in the course of, their employment. Coverage for compensation also includes claims where a worker contracts a disease or is disabled in any way by the environment of a job.
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