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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 5030 ..

POISONS AND DRUGS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1997

Debate resumed 6 November 1997, on motion by Mrs Carnell:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (10.06): The Poisons and Drugs (Amendment) Bill 1997 is about adopting the scheduling of drugs and poisons in accordance with the standard, and adopts by reference schedules 1 to 8 of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Drugs and Poisons. It is a matter which was agreed to between States and Territories initially at the Australian Health Ministers Conference in June 1990. This Bill is a machinery matter and will be supported by the Labor Party.

MR MOORE (10.07): Mr Speaker, I take some interest in both this Bill and the next one. I think this is a very sensible and fairly mechanical amendment, so I will be supporting the Bill.

MS TUCKER (10.08): I would like to make a couple of comments generally about labelling. I think there are some issues that need to be addressed much more than they are at the moment in terms of labelling. For example, the issue of genetically modified food is an interesting one. Genetically modified soy beans are actually modified so that as they are growing they can tolerate a much higher level of herbicides. So there is a much greater level of herbicides in some of the soy products now. There are some pretty serious issues that need to be addressed in terms of what is put on food labels, particularly in view of the increasing sensitivity of some members of our community to chemicals.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1997

Debate resumed from 6 November 1997, on motion by Mrs Carnell:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (10.09): According to the explanatory memorandum, this Bill is to make the operation of the Act more flexible in that it removes certain restrictions on the range of officers who can act in the position of analyst. It seems to make the legislation easier to manage and therefore will be supported.

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