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Mrs Carnell: You know perfectly well what we are going to do.
MR BERRY: No. I had a long discussion with Mr Humphries about many of these matters this afternoon and I think we probably agreed to disagree on some of them because time was not available to us to sort out some of the issues. There is a new one here that I have just talked to Mr Humphries about, the final amendment to which Mrs Carnell referred. The amendment circulated by Mr Humphries might be more satisfactorily dealt with by a form of words which I was just able to discuss with him. At this point it seems that we might not be able to proceed to finality with the Bill, given that there are issues that really need to be addressed by the Law Office, to ensure that matters are heard. I am prepared to argue as many of those as possible, before we get to the point of giving up, to see where our Independent friends are coming from on this score.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail Stage
Clauses 1 to 5, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Clause 6
MRS CARNELL (Leader of the Opposition) (8.46): I move:
Page 4, line 21, proposed new subsection 19YA(2), omit ", has been or will be,", substitute "or has been".
What that means, basically, is that this clause or this part of the Bill will not include the future tense. "Offence" will not mean an offence that may be committed at some stage in the future.
Mr Berry: It is nervousness about move-on powers. This is different.
MRS CARNELL: I have not said anything about move-on powers. Madam Speaker, as the Bill currently is put together it suggests that an offence under this part of the Act will not mean just an offence that has been committed or that is being committed, but also one that might be committed at some time in the future.
Ms Follett: Like move-on powers.
MRS CARNELL: The Chief Minister mentions move-on powers, Madam Speaker, and I think that is a very appropriate thing to put forward. The Government has adamantly rejected move-on powers, but it wants them now for health inspectors. It suggests that the police - - -
Mr Connolly: Yes, to move on rotting food out of public eating.
MRS CARNELL: If the food is already rotten, Mr Connolly, you can do it. It is only if it might be rotten at some time in the future. Madam Speaker, seriously, to suggest in a food Bill that an offence under Part IICA of this Bill includes not just something that has been committed or is
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