Page 3647 - Week 08 - Friday, 24 August 2012

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proposing to create an explicit guideline-making power so that the minister can set out the rules under which the process works.

I had contemplated an explicit clause restricting the insurer’s behaviour, but, as the government have indicated to me that they share the same concerns and that they will include such a clause in the guidelines themselves, there is no need for such a provision in the act itself.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 7, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 8.

MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Leader, ACT Greens) (5.37): I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 4 at page 3686].

I have just spoken to this. I am happy to stay with those remarks that I made about clauses 2 to 6.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 8, as amended, agreed to.

Proposed new clause 8A.

MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Leader, ACT Greens) (5.38): I move amendment No 4 circulated in my name which inserts a new clause 8A [see schedule 4 at page 3686].

Once again, I have spoken on this matter, Mr Speaker.

Proposed new clause 8A agreed to.

Proposed new clauses 8B and 8C.

MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Leader, ACT Greens) (5.38): I move amendment No 5 circulated in my name which inserts new clauses 8B and 8C [see schedule 4 at page 3686].

Proposed new clauses 8B and 8C agreed to.

Proposed new clause 8D.

MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Leader, ACT Greens) (5.39): I move amendment No 6 circulated in my name which inserts a new clause 8D [see schedule 4 at page 3687].

Proposed new clause 8D agreed to.


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