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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 08 Hansard (Tuesday, 3 August 2004) . . Page.. 3375 ..

Amendment negatived.

Clause 14.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (5.43): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 3380].

This amendment deletes section 14 (2) from the bill. Parliamentary Counsel’s Office has identified that subsection 14 (2) is unnecessary as only public servants will be appointed as authorised persons under subsection 14 (1) of the act.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 14, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 15 to 20, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 21.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (5.44): Mr Speaker I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 3380].

Mr Speaker, this is a response to a matter drawn to attention by the scrutiny committee. It inserts new clause 21 (7) at the end of clause 21, dealing with a notice to remove litter.

Clause 21 (6) makes it an offence to fail to comply with the notice to remove litter. The scrutiny of bills committee in its report noted there was no provision to the effect that this was a strict liability offence. The new clause makes it clear that the clause is a strict liability offence.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 21, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 22 to 29, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Schedule 1.

MR WOOD (Minister for Disability, Housing and Community Services, Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Arts and Heritage, and Acting Minister for Health) (5.45): I move amendment No 4, Mr Speaker, circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 3380].

This is—I am told and I agree—of a fairly technical nature. It is an amendment to schedule 1 which makes consequential amendments to the Magistrates Court Act 1930 to

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