Page 3199 - Week 11 - Wednesday, 21 September 1994

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Question put:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 13   NOES, 4

Mr Berry  Mr Cornwell

Mrs Carnell Mr De Domenico

Mr Connolly Mr Kaine

Ms Ellis  Mr Stefaniak

Ms Follett

Mrs Grassby

Mr Humphries

Mr Lamont

Ms McRae

Mr Moore

Mr Stevenson

Ms Szuty

Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Detail Stage

Clauses 1 and 2, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

Clause 3

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.01): Madam Speaker, I move amendment No. 1 circulated in my name, which reads as follows:

Page 2, line 1, definition of "direction", omit "written or oral".

I formally present the supplementary explanatory memorandum which deals with all of the amendments.

Madam Speaker, I think I foreshadowed in the in-principle debate that the Government is bringing forward a range of amendments, 90 per cent of which are technical and really flow out of the Government's response to the committee's report. They are designed to improve the workability of the Bill. The issue of substance relates to clarifying that this is not a Bill which would allow a back door to active euthanasia. That is the next amendment to be moved, and I will refer to it in detail.

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