Page 2413 - Week 06 - Thursday, 10 May 2012
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MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (7.06): The government will be supporting this amendment. It is a consequential amendment that omits the dot point in clause 4 of the government bill that signposts section 205F which creates an offence for exceeding the expenditure cap. Amendment 1 is consequential to amendment 5 which proposes an alternative section 205F and a new section, section 205FA, both of which concern electoral expenditure.
Amendment agreed to.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (7.07), by leave: I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 4 at page 2468].
This relates to the amendments not considered by the scrutiny of bills committee. I table a supplementary explanatory statement. This is a consequential amendment that inserts a new dot point into clause 4 of the Electoral Amendment Bill. Clause 4 lists the offences in the Electoral Amendment Bill to which the Criminal Code 2002 applies and amendment 1 reflects the insertion of a new section, section 215FA, in amendment No 11.
Amendment negatived.
Clause 4, as amended, agreed to.
Clauses 5 to 7, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Proposed new clause 7A.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (7.09): I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name on the white paper [see schedule 5 at page 2473].
For the information of members here, I have four sets of amendments, and I thank Janice Rafferty in particular and the Secretariat staff for their forbearance. Just to make life easier as we go on, there are amendments on the white paper, which are my amendments to the bill itself, and there are pink amendments. If some of these amendments fail then I will move these contingent amendments. In addition there are amendments on the blue paper, which are my amendments to the attorney’s amendments to his bill, and there is one amendment on a yellow page which is a contingent amendment—just so everyone knows what we are talking about and why we have come up with this colour coding.
Turning to the amendment itself, this amendment inserts a new definition of affiliation fee. It is a definition which does not exist in the legislation as it currently stands and it is contingent upon amendments that I propose to move to the government’s new clause 198AA. It is necessary for those amendments to have an affiliation fee attached to them. I am sure that most people who work in politics would understand what an
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