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MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (4.27), in reply: I welcome the support from the Liberal Party for this legislation. I notice that it was peppered with Mrs Carnell's usual too quick, too slow, too high, too low, too much, too little, and so on. It can never be just right. But I am happy about that because, if Mrs Carnell is unhappy, we are on the right track. This is a piece of legislation which, as has been explained, is necessary in the context of one Australia. It comes from the Heads of Government meetings which have occurred around this country, and it is a result of initiatives of a Federal Labor government and, in particular, the former Prime Minister, Mr Hawke. Of course, this process will continue. As part of the Labor Party, I am quite proud to have played a part - only a very small part; nevertheless, a part - in relation to this legislation.
I would like to circulate a corrigendum to the explanatory memorandum which was earlier circulated. An omission was picked up by the Scrutiny of Bills Committee in its report No. 3 of 1993. Two lines of the text describing the effect of clause 24 were omitted from the top of page 26, the final page of the memorandum. They read:
Clause 24 provides for the amendment of the Act in accordance with the Schedule. The Schedule amends various provisions of the Act to -
You missed that, Mrs Carnell. I thought I would test you out. I did not want to give you anything else to complain about. This corrigendum corrects the error in the explanatory memorandum by inserting the two lines of the text which have been omitted.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail Stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (4.30): I seek leave to move together amendments Nos 1 to 7 which have been circulated in my name.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: I move:
Page 14, clause 16, line 31, proposed new paragraph 30(l)(k), omit "and".
Page 14, clause 16, line 33, proposed new subsection 30(1), add at the end - "; and
(n) any conduct by the practitioner, whether occurring in the practice of medicine or not, that adversely affects the practice of medicine by the practitioner or brings the medical profession into disrepute.".
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