Page 3599 - Week 12 - Thursday, 13 October 1994
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PERSONAL EXPLANATION
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I seek leave to make a personal explanation under standing order 46.
MADAM SPEAKER: Continue, Mr Humphries.
MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you, Madam Speaker. In the presentation speech he just delivered, the Attorney sought to distinguish features of the Bill just presented relating to the power of police to demand name and address from a Bill which was tabled by me last year in the Assembly. He listed seven points which purported to represent differences between my legislation and his.
I want to draw the Assembly's attention to three matters where I think that the Attorney has misrepresented the situation. He indicates that his Bill is different in that the power to demand name and address will be limited to name and address. It will not require answers to be given about where a person is going or what he or she has been doing. I draw the Assembly's attention to the fact that this is not a feature of my Bill and never has been proposed. He also says that it will be an offence to refuse or to give a false name and address, with the penalty being a fine, because of the community policing nature of policing in the Territory. I draw the Assembly's attention to the fact that my Bill is identical in this respect, not different. He also points out that under his Bill a citizen will be able to demand the police officer's name, station and evidence that the person is a police officer. That, Madam Speaker, is very similar to the proposal in my Bill, where a person has the right, in these circumstances, to require the police officer to state his or her surname, rank and badge number.
PODIATRISTS BILL 1994
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (10.51): Madam Speaker, I present the Podiatrists Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: This is a step in the right direction, showing that our feet are placed on the ground. Madam Speaker, I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
The Podiatrists Bill 1994 will introduce registration for podiatrists and make provision for the control of the practice of podiatry and related matters in respect of the profession within the ACT. It is the first of two new health professions registration Bills and will bring the Territory into line with other Australian jurisdictions which currently have statutory regulation for this occupational group. It also fulfils in part the Territory's commitment to the introduction of a uniform approach to the regulation of health occupations similar to what, in the interest of public health and safety, is occurring across all States and Territories.
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