Page 1187 - Week 04 - Thursday, 21 April 1994
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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.21): I move Government amendment No. 67, Madam Speaker, which reads:
67. Page 97, line 4, proposed new section 226, add at the end the following subsections:
"(6) Where the registration of a party is cancelled during a financial year, this section applies to the party in relation to that year as if a reference to a reporting agent were a reference to the person who was the reporting agent immediately before the cancellation.
"(7) Where a person ceases to be an independent MLA during a financial year, this section applies to the person in relation to that year as if the person were the reporting agent.".
This amendment is in order to make it clear that parties that cease to be registered parties and persons who cease to be MLAs during the financial year are required to submit an annual return for that part of the financial year in which the party was registered or the person was an MLA, as the case may be. This appears to be a matter that was overlooked in the original drafting.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.22): I move Government amendment No. 68, Madam Speaker, which reads:
68. Page 98, lines 1 to 5, proposed new section 230, omit the section, substitute the following section:
Outstanding amounts
"230. If, at the end of a financial year, the sum of all debts owed by a party or MLA to a particular person or organisation is $1,500 or more, the return shall specify the sum and include the defined particulars.".
This is to make it clear that all outstanding debts owed by a party or MLA at the end of a financial year to a particular person or to an organisation of $1,500 or more must be disclosed, not just those debts incurred during that financial year.
MR MOORE (3.22): Madam Speaker, I seek clarification from the Chief Minister in terms of the limitations for an individual MLA. For example, could she clarify "debts"? I assume that this does not include housing loans and things like that. Have they been exempted? Only after re-reading this amendment now, Chief Minister, has this occurred to me. An independent MLA without a party background may well be forced, by this amendment, to provide personal details that we would not normally intend would have to be provided.
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