Page 919 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 16 March 2010
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(1) The Minister must as soon as practicable after 1 July 2011—
that is, one year after the full year of operation of the act—
(a) review the operation of this Act in relation to the relationship of the National Boards and the health complaints entity; and
(b) present a report of the review to the Legislative Assembly.
And it must do so before 1 July 2012.
MR HANSON (Molonglo) (5.10): The opposition will be supporting the government’s amendment. I welcome it. I think that it is important that we do review this legislation after a period of time of being enacted. Obviously, we have disagreements between the Greens, the Liberals and the government on this one, which is sometimes not unusual. But I think it is important that the final form of the legislation is reviewed after a period of time. I welcome that and I encourage the minister, when that review does occur, to embrace it as a genuine review. I am sure she will and I look forward to the results of that review being tabled in the Assembly in accordance with her amendment.
MS BRESNAN (Brindabella) (5.11): The Greens will also agree to this amendment. As Mr Hanson says, I think it is a sensible approach to have this review process. It does address concerns which have been raised through various boards and through the commissioner as well. It does provide an opportunity to look at how the act is working, to see how that joint consideration process is working and, as it says, to table the review in the Assembly so that it gives each member here a chance to see how that process has been working.
Amendment agreed to.
Proposed new clause 10A agreed to.
Clauses 11 to 14, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Schedule 1, modification 1.1.
MR HANSON (Molonglo) (5.12): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 934].
I will discuss all the amendments that I am putting on the table today in one go so that we do not have to go through it laboriously. The intent of the amendments is the same, and that is to amend the legislation as tabled by the government to reflect the model that has been introduced in the other parliaments, in the other states and territories, and to reflect the nationally consistent model. That is in accordance with the speech that I made at the in-principle stage. In essence—
MADAM DEPUTY SPEAKER: Just to clarify, Mr Hanson, you are going to move them all separately?
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