Page 2796 - Week 09 - Thursday, 26 August 1993
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Subregulation 25(1) -
Omit "Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages", substitute "Registrar-General".
Paragraph 25(1)(b) -
Omit "Registrar", substitute "Registrar-General".
Subregulations 25(2), (3), (4) and (5) -
Omit "Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages", substitute "Registrar-General".
Subregulations 26(1) and (2) -
Omit "Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages", substitute "Registrar-General".
Subregulations 27(1) and (2) -
Omit "Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages", substitute "Registrar-General".
Subregulation 28(2) -
Omit "Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages", substitute "Registrar-General".
MR HUMPHRIES (4.40): Madam Speaker, although I have said that the scheme put forward in this Bill is a good one, I must say that I am less than impressed with the way in which a great raft of amendments have come forward today, virtually at the death-knock. It is also disturbing, frankly, that all these amendments relate effectively to a fairly simple oversight concerning the fact that in this Bill we have been dealing with a quite major piece of legislation, that is the adoption legislation - which we would all remember very well - which was entirely superseding the old Adoption of Children Act 1965; yet we had here presented in the Assembly a piece of legislation which extensively sought to amend a repealed Act, the Adoption of Children Act 1965. I think, Madam Speaker, it is really pretty poor.
I sincerely hope that the Government does not in future come into this place with amendments as major as this and expect to achieve cooperation on all occasions from members of this Opposition. We are entitled to a little bit of notice. There are a good dozen Bills on the table today for debate. I know that Mr Berry never makes a mistake. It does not apply to him, so he would not have to worry about this.
Mr Berry: Yes, I do.
MR HUMPHRIES: I hope that that is on the record, Madam Speaker. "Yes, I do", he said. Madam Speaker, it is not really appropriate and I do hope that the Minister makes the effort to ask his department to be a little bit more diligent in getting these sorts of things before the Assembly in better time.
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