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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 5 Hansard (9 May) . . Page.. 1262 ..
MR STANHOPE (continuing):
Proposed amendment of Mental Health (Treatment and Care) Act 1994, proposed amendment of subsection 91A, omit the amendment, substitute the following amendment:
Section 91A-
Repeal the section.".As I have said, Mr Speaker, the suite of amendments that I move to this bill all relate to the same subject: namely, the issue which we have just had a debate on, that is, the right of mentally ill people and remandees to have the discretion at least to appear in person. The Assembly has rejected the good sense of my amendments. They are a suite of amendments. They go together. They have been rejected by the Assembly. I maintain my position in relation to all of them, but I will not labour the point.
Amendments (Mr Stanhope's ) to Mr Humphries' amendment negatived.
Amendment (Mr Humphries' ) agreed to.
Amendment (by Mr Humphries ) agreed to:
Page 16, line 9, proposed amendment of the Residential Tenancies Act 1997, insert the following amendment:
"Subsection 96A (1)-
Omit '85AE (1) or 85AQ (1) of the Evidence Act 1971', substitute '18 (1) or 30 (1) of the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1991'.".Amendment (by Mr Humphries ) proposed:
Page 16, line 11, before the proposed amendments of the Tenancy Tribunal Act 1994, insert the following amendments:
Subsection 34A (1)-
Omit '85AE (1) or 85AQ (1) of the Evidence Act 1971', substitute '18 (1) or 30 (1) of the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1991'.Subsection 55A (4)-
Omit the subsection, substitute the following subsection:'(4) In this section-
audiovisual link -see the Evidence (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1991, section 14.'.".
Amendment (Mr Stanhope's ) to Mr Humphries' amendment negatived:
Proposed new amendment of Supreme Court Act 1933, proposed new amendment of section 55A, insert the following amendment:
"Subsection 55A (1)-
Omit the subsection substitute the following subsection:'(1) The court may order that an application by a person for bail be heard by audiovisual link if-
(a) the person is in custody and is required or entitled to appear, or is required to be brought, before the court for the hearing of the application; and
(b) an audiovisual link is available between the place where the court is sitting and the place where the person is in custody; and
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