Page 4582 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 14 December 1993

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MR BERRY (Minister for Health, Minister for Industrial Relations and Minister for Sport) (9.29): You have missed the point. Under the provisions for referral from the commissioner to the board and the board back to the commissioner, each must take into account the relevant legislation - that is, this Bill or the particular practitioners registration Act, whatever the case may be. This one here provides for an automatic referral of each river of complaints in relation to each relevant provider registered by the board. That is an automatic referral rather than an overriding requirement for the commissioner to take into account whether or not the board has any powers to deal with the matter. If the board has no powers to deal with the matter it ought not be referred to them.

Debate interrupted.

ADJOURNMENT

MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Order! It being 9.30 pm, I propose the question:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.

Question resolved in the negative.

HEALTH COMPLAINTS BILL 1993

[COGNATE BILL:

OMBUDSMAN (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1993]

Detail Stage

Proposed new clause 77A

Debate resumed.

MR BERRY: I require that you consider those very important points. It is an important issue for anybody to consider in the context of law. Persons on the relevant professional registration board have no right to interfere automatically in the affairs of people the board might register, particularly if the board has no powers in relation to that particular referral. It is of no interest to them - except for them to be stickybeaks, and being a stickybeak is not a good enough reason to have privacy breached.

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