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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 8 Hansard (9 August) . . Page.. 2818 ..

Amendment negatived.

MR STANHOPE ( Leader of the Opposition) (1.54 am): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 16 standing in my name [see schedule 4 at page 2871].

I note that the Attorney has indicated that the government will support this amendment.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 41, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 42 agreed to.

Proposed new part 4A.

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (1.55 am): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name which seeks to insert new part 4A [see schedule 5, part 1, at page 2875].

As the supplementary explanatory memorandum indicates, this amendment is proposed for technical reasons to ensure that the ACT can participate in the national DNA database, as was always intended by this Assembly.

The need for the amendment arises because some participating jurisdictions did not adopt the model Forensic Procedures Bill to the same extent that the ACT adopted it, with the result that the definition of "corresponding law" may not now achieve the desired result. The amendments will ensure that ACT law enforcement agencies can gain access through the Crimtrack database to DNA profiles derived under other jurisdictions' laws. I must stress that they will not change in any way the rules governing access to or use of any DNA profiles derived under the ACT's laws, whether by ACT law enforcement agencies or such agencies in other jurisdictions.

Proposed new part 4A agreed to.

Clauses 43 to 53, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 54.

MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (1.56 am): This is another "suspects" versus "believes" section. I indicate that the Labor Party opposes this proposal.

Clause 54 agreed to.

Clauses 55 to 62, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clauses 63 and 64, by leave, taken together.

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