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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 10 Hansard (25 November) . . Page.. 3003 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) (1.20 am): Mr Speaker, I move the amendment circulated in my name to Mr Moore's amendment No. 14:

Proposed subclause 8(1), after "to that effect" insert ", stating the date and time".

The amendment inserts the requirement in the certificate that the declaration in writing should state the time and date. Obviously, it is important to do that in order to facilitate a comparison between the time and date of the first certificate and the time and date of the second certificate so that it is possible to calculate that 72 hours have indeed elapsed between the provision of the information and the completion of the second certificate.

MR MOORE (Minister for Health and Community Care) (1.21 am): Perhaps I could comment on that, Mr Speaker. In fact, Mr Humphries has taken those words out of another one of my amendments and it is just a drafting omission that he has corrected.

Amendment (Mr Humphries') to Mr Moore's amendment agreed to.

Amendment (Mr Moore's), as amended, agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 9

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer) (1.22 am): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No. 2 circulated in my name:

Page 5, line 9, subclause (1), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclauses:

"(1) A person shall not perform an abortion on a woman unless the consent of the woman has been obtained in writing, specifying the time and date of the consent.

Penalty: 200 penalty units.

(1A) Subject to this section, a woman who is a dependent minor shall not be regarded as having given her consent unless a custodial parent -

(a) has been informed that an abortion is proposed; and

(b) has been given the opportunity to participate in -

(i) the discussion between the woman and the medical practitioner at which information is to be provided for the purposes of section 7; and

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