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previous amendments require the seizure of such documents to be recorded in the incident register. What needs to be done, just to reinforce it, is this. Firstly, the details of the date and time the seized identification documents were given to the commissioner are to be recorded in the incident register rather than as a separate record, which is the current requirement. So we are taking away one record and putting it somewhere else.

The second thing that this amendment does is require that a copy of the receipt given to the person from whom the identification was seized be kept in the incident register with the record of the incident. This will create an evidence trail that may be required in the conduct of future investigations.

I commend these amendments to the Assembly.

MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Minister for Energy and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (5.02): I would imagine that the majority of members are not going to support the government’s position, but, for the record, the government will not be supporting this amendment, for the reasons stated in relation to amendment 4. Requiring licensees to record details of confiscations in the incident register misunderstands the nature and purpose of the register, which relates to incidents that go to the licensee’s operation of the premises. A licensee who confiscates many false IDs is operating appropriately and should not be burdened in the way proposed by Mrs Dunne.

Proposed new amendments 1.34A and 1.34B agreed to.

Amendment 1.35.

This amendment simply corrects a wrong section reference.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment 1.35, as amended, agreed to.

Amendments 1.36 and 1.37, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Amendment 1.38.

MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (5.04): I move amendment No 11 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 5353].

This amendment, No 11, and No 12 go together. These amendments omit the draconian measures of a heavy-handed government intent on making it as difficult as

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