Page 5730 - Week 13 - Thursday, 18 November 2010
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . . Video
MR HANSON (Molonglo) (5.07): As foreshadowed earlier, we support the government’s amendment and this will ensure that holders of interstate licences driving in the ACT will be subject to immediate suspension provisions. Given the unique nature of the ACT—its proximity to Queanbeyan and being surrounded by New South Wales—we believe this amendment is an important one to ensure that interstate licence holders understand that we take driving under the impairment of drugs or alcohol extremely seriously in the ACT.
MS BRESNAN (Brindabella) (5.07): The ACT Greens will be supporting this amendment as it is a technical amendment inserting a reference to a new offence in the section outlined in the application of the Criminal Code.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 129, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 130 agreed to.
Clause 131.
MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Minister for Transport, Minister for Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Business and Economic Development, Minister for Land and Property Services, Minister for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs and Minister for the Arts and Heritage) (5.08), by leave: I move amendments Nos 3 to 8 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 5751].
I will go through each of these amendments. Amendment No 3 applies to section 61B(2)(f), which sets out the matters that must be stated in an immediate suspension notice. This substitutes new sections 61B(2)(f)(i) and (ia). The effect of these provisions is that if the person holds an ACT driver licence the suspension notice suspends the person’s driver licence.
The situation for interstate or external drivers is a little different. This is because ACT legislation cannot suspend an interstate or external driver licence. It can only suspend an interstate or external licence holder’s right to drive in the ACT. Therefore, the amendments provide that the suspension notice must explain that if the person holds an interstate or external driver licence the notice operates to suspend that person’s right to drive in the ACT.
Amendment 4 is an amendment that applies to section 61B(2)(f) which sets out the matters that must be stated in an immediate suspension notice. The notice must explain that while a suspension notice is in effect an ACT driver licence holder must not drive a vehicle. For interstate and external licence holders, while a suspension notice is in effect the driver must not drive a vehicle in the ACT.
Amendment 5 applies to proposed section 61B(4). That provision explains what happens when a person is served with an immediate suspension notice. The
Next page . . . . Previous page . . . . Speeches . . . . Contents . . . . Debates(HTML) . . . . PDF . . . . Video