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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (25 May) . . Page.. 1888 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
The following new clause be inserted in the Bill: Page 20, line 29:
"43A Legal professional privilege
If, in response to a requirement to answer a question, provide information or produce a document, a person is entitled to claim, and does claim, legal professional privilege in relation to the requirement, the person does not have to comply with the requirement.".
Amendment -
Clause 45, page 22, line 2, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:
"45 False or misleading statements
A person must not knowingly or recklessly in or in relation to an application for a first home owner grant-
(a) state anything that is false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b) omit from a statement anything without which the statement is misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
Mr Speaker, these amendments pick up recommendations of the scrutiny of bills committee. I table a supplementary explanatory memorandum.
Amendments agreed to.
Remainder of bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
Debate resumed from 23 May 2000, on motion by Mr Humphries:
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
Debate (on motion by Mr Osborne ) adjourned.
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
MR HARGREAVES
(10.06): The Milk Authority (Repeal) Bill will represent the final nail in the ACT milk industry's coffin. The future for vendors, the processor and the consumer is looking very uncertain, with no-one really knowing what the outcome will
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