Page 4573 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 14 December 1993
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MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (8.57): I understand what Mr Moore is saying, but my advice is that there will be no effect at all until there is a code and - - -
Mr Moore: Yes, that is true. There is no question about that.
MR BERRY: In any event, people can rely on other grounds to make a complaint. All of the grounds are fairly well covered. I note the words that Mr Moore has moved and there will be no resistance from the Government.
Amendments agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 23 to 62, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Clause 63
MR MOORE (8.58): I move:
Page 26, line 7, add the following subclause:
"(2) An instrument under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.".
Mr Deputy Speaker, this amendment once again is to ensure that an appointment to the Health Rights Advisory Council shall be a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989. In spite of the fact that Mr Berry suggests that I want to have no responsibility at all, just the opposite applies, once again, to the sort of thing that Mr Berry is saying. Making these appointments disallowable instruments means that I, like every other member of the Assembly, will wear some responsibility for the appointment of any member, whether or not we resist it. At the time the appointment is made we have the power to say, "No, this is an inappropriate appointment". If we do not use that power, then part of the responsibility for that appointment rests with us as well. For that reason, I think that people who are appointed can feel that they are not going to be subjected to the sorts of problems that a person whose name I mentioned earlier was. That being the case, Mr Deputy Speaker, I think that this is, again, a positive amendment.
MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (9.00): Nothing that Mr Moore has added to the debate would move the Government from its position in relation to these proposed amendments. They are a nonsense. They just make it more difficult to attract the right sort of people. But I see that nothing will sway Mr Moore from his course.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 64 to 77, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
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