Page 2117 - Week 07 - Thursday, 4 June 2015
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Proposed new clause 7B agreed to.
Clauses 8 to 84, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Proposed new clause 84A.
MR SMYTH (Brindabella) (5.18): I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name, which inserts a new clause 84A [see schedule 5 at page 2140].
This clause inserts a review clause. Often when we do complex legislation it is reasonable to come back after a period of time, have a review and present that review to the Assembly. This suggests that before the commencement of phase 2 of the review the government review the operation of the amendments made by this act and then present a report of the review to the Assembly. The section would expire five years after its commencement, because I suspect that it will not be required at that time. It is about making sure we have got this right by conducting a review and it is about the Assembly being informed.
MS BURCH (Brindabella—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Minister for Disability, Minister for Racing and Gaming and Minister for the Arts) (5.19): I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name to Mr Smyth’s amendment, which inserts a new clause 84A [see schedule 4 at page 2139].
This amendment relates to the proposed review of the bill’s provisions. I accept that there are significant reforms and the Assembly may wish to have a review undertaken. However, I think the review of all the amendments made by the bill is excessive. That said, I understand that there is an interest in aspects of phase 1—namely, the forfeiture requirements and the quarantine permits. For this reason I am not opposing the proposed review in its entirety. Instead, my amendment proposes to narrow the scope of the intended review as it focuses on those two key areas.
The details of the particular amendment are that it omits everything before proposed new paragraph 179(1)(b) in proposed new clause 84A and substitutes a revised paragraph 179(1)(a) with consequential revisions in the opening words of subsection 179(1). The amendment provides that I must, before the commencement of “schedule 1 (Other amendments—compulsory surrender)”, review the operations of section 127F, “Trading authorisations—forfeiture requirement)” and subdivision 6.11.3, “Quarantine permits”. No amendment is proposed to proposed new paragraph 179(1)(b), which requires that the report of the review be presented to the Assembly, or to subsection 179(2), which is a sunset clause for the review provision.
As I have said before, this bill is an important part of the gaming machine reform package that supports the ongoing viability of the clubs sector while preserving a robust regulatory framework and maintaining a strong harm minimisation framework. My proposed amendments are in line with those aims.
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