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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 3 Hansard (13 March) . . Page.. 1077 ..

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Detail stage

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.

MR STANHOPE

(Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Community Affairs and Minister for the Environment) (5.54): I seek leave to move my amendments, as circulated, together.

Leave granted.

MR STANHOPE

: I move amendments Nos 1 to 4 together [see schedule 4 at page 1092]. The government will be opposing clause 5. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the government's amendments.

Since the Assembly has just passed the Legislation (Gay, Lesbian and Transgender) Amendment Bill, the Discrimination Amendment Bill, which was originally intended to be debated first, needs to be amended. These amendments are to take account of the fact that the Legislation Act 2001 has now been amended to include definitions of domestic partner and domestic partnership. As a result, the Discrimination Act can use those terms without needing to have the definitions included within it.

Amendment 1, which I have moved, omits clause 5 of the Discrimination Amendment Bill, which would have inserted definitions of domestic partner and domestic partnership into the act. Amendment 2 includes a note at the end of the new definition of relationship status inserted by clause 8 of the Discrimination Amendment Bill into section 4(1) of the Discrimination Act.

The note says that the meaning of the term domestic partner can be found in the Legislation Act 2001, section 169. Amendment 3 includes a note at the end of definition of near relative, inserted by clause 14 of the Discrimination Amendment Bill 2002 (No 2). In section 26 of the Discrimination Act, the note says that the meaning of the term domestic partner can be found in the Legislation Act 2001, section 169.

Amendment 4 includes a note at the end of the new section 35, inserted in the Discrimination Act by clause 16 of the Discrimination Amendment Bill 2002. The note says that the meaning of the term domestic partnership can be found in the Legislation Act 2001, section 169.

Mr Speaker, I move these amendments to the Discrimination Amendment Bill (No 2) 2002, and commend them to the Assembly.

Amendments agreed to.

Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

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