Hansard - ACT Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4779 ..

Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (5.39): I ask for leave to move together amendments Nos 2 and 3 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: I thank members. I move:

Page 2, line 2, clause 4, proposed new subsection 575(1), omit all words after "police", substitute "officer Ã

(a) is satisfied as to the identity of a person who has attained the age of 18 years; and

(b) reasonably believes that the person has committed a prescribed offence;

he or she may serve an offence notice on the person".

Page 2, line 5, clause 4, proposed new subsection 575(2), omit the subsection.

I have already spoken to the thrust of these amendments.

Amendments agreed to.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (5.40): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 2, line 25, clause 4, proposed new subsection 575(7), omit the subsection, substitute the following subsections:

" `(7) Notwithstanding paragraphs (4)(b) and (c), where -

(a) a person pays the prescribed penalty in accordance with an offence notice; and

(b) a conviction for the relevant prescribed offence would constitute a breach of conditions of -

(i) bail;

(ii) a recognisance to be of good behaviour; or

(iii) parole;

the person shall be dealt with as if he or she had breached the relevant conditions.