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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (28 November) . . Page.. 3343 ..
Amendment (by Ms Tucker ) negatived:
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Page 61, line 27, subclause (4), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclause:
"(4) An authorised officer is a public servant for the time being performing the duties of the public service office mentioned in subsection (3).".
Clause 123 agreed to.
Clauses 124 to 140, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Proposed new clause 140A.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (5.45): Mr Speaker, I move:
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That the following new clause be inserted in the Bill: page 68, line 27:
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"140A False or misleading statements
A person must not, in purported compliance with a requirement under this Act-
(a) state anything to the registrar or an authorised person that the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular; or
(b) omit from a statement made to the registrar or an authorised person anything without which the statement is, to the person's knowledge, misleading in a material particular.
Maximum penalty: 20 penalty units.".
This new provision makes it an offence to provide false or misleading statements.
Proposed new clause agreed to.
Clause 141.
MS TUCKER: I move:
Page 69, line 8, Penalty, omit "10", substitute "5".
This amendment reduces the penalty from 10 penalty units to five penalty units for a person not returning a registration certificate or dog tag within seven days if their payment of a fee by cheque or credit card is dishonoured. A 10-unit penalty seems excessive compared to similar offences in the legislation that incur only five penalty units-offences such as failing to tell the registrar that ownership of a dog has been transferred, keeping an unregistered dog, failing to tell the registrar of a change of address, or allowing a dog to wear a registration tag that was not issued to that dog. At least the person has made the effort to pay their bill, so I do not think we should be too hard on them for not having enough money in their account.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 141, as amended, agreed to.
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