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SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
Papers
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): Pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, I present subordinate legislation in accordance with the schedule of gazettal notices for a regulation and Supreme Court rules.
The schedule read as follows:
Casino Control Act - Casino Control Regulations (Amendment) - No. 3 of 1994 (S31, dated 28 February 1994).
Supreme Court Act - Supreme Court Rules (Amendment) - No. 2 of 1994 (S30, dated 28 February 1994).
Tobacco Act - Exemption - No. 14 of 1994 (S42, dated 2 March 1994).
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report
MRS GRASSBY (3.38): Madam Speaker, I ask for leave to present the report of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation on the Scrutiny of Legislation Committees Conference.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: I present the report of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation on the Scrutiny of Legislation Committees Conference held in Brisbane on 11 February 1994, and I move:
That the report be noted.
Madam Speaker, the report I have just tabled is the result of attendance by Mr Humphries and me at a conference of scrutiny of legislation committees in Brisbane last month. The conference was attended by the chair and deputy chair of all scrutiny committees in Australia, with the exception of those of the Commonwealth and South Australian parliaments, whose parliaments were sitting and who unfortunately could not attend.
The theme of the conference was national uniform legislation and the role that the scrutiny committees such as ours play. In recent years uniform legislation has been introduced on a more regular basis, and members will be aware of recent Bills that have been passed in the Second Assembly. Two examples are the Financial Institutions (Application of Laws) Bill 1992 and the Limitation (Amendment) Bill 1993.
The conference recognised the need for such legislation. The Speaker of the Queensland Parliament, Hon. Jim Fouras, in his opening address to the conference gave an example of this need, noting the fact that the Australian States have very different criminal laws. He posed the question: Why should the punishment which a certain offence carries vary simply by the crossing of a line on the map somewhere in Australia?
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