Page 4033 - Week 13 - Thursday, 10 November 1994
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INTOXICATED PERSONS (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 1994
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.34): Madam Speaker, I present the Intoxicated Persons (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
As people wanted the speech on the principal Bill read out, I presume that they want it read out on the other Bill. The Intoxicated Persons (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1994 provides for amendments to the Crimes Act 1900 and the Coroners Act 1956. Severe intoxication with alcohol, another drug or a combination of drugs can be dangerous, and in some cases fatal. Unfortunately, there have been a number of deaths in sobering-up places in New South Wales. The consequential amendments Bill makes provision for a death of a client at a licensed sobering-up place to be treated as a death in custody under the Coroners Act 1956. This amendment in no way undermines the voluntary nature of admission to a licensed sobering-up place, but will provide an added protection should a tragedy such as that which has occurred elsewhere happen in the ACT. The consequential amendments Bill also provides for section 351 of the Crimes Act, which deals with police powers to detain and search intoxicated persons, to be deleted, as these powers will now be contained within the Intoxicated Persons (Care and Protection) Act 1994. I table the explanatory memorandum.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Carnell) adjourned.
PSYCHOLOGISTS BILL 1994
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.36): Madam Speaker, I present the Psychologists Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, this Bill is the last of the mutual recognition Bills. In the previous long speech on dentists, if you delete "dentist" and insert "psychologist", you have my speech. So I seek leave to have my speech incorporated in Hansard.
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