Page 1626 - Week 05 - Tuesday, 14 May 2019
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Mrs Jones: But you do not mind the insurance companies getting plenty of money.
MS LE COUTEUR: The suggestion that Mrs Jones has just made that all of this is to make life easier for the insurance companies is certainly, to the best of my knowledge, untrue. We are not trying to make life easier for insurance companies. We are trying to make a fair system and, in a system where the insurance companies are heavily scrutinised by the regulator, the funds going to the regulator will increase tenfold. The aim of this scheme is to make life easier for injured people, not for insurance companies and not for lawyers.
Amendment negatived.
MADAM SPEAKER: Members, can I bring your attention to the time. At some point we will need to adjourn this debate to move to the Assembly adjournment debate.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (6.24): I move amendment No 77 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 1642].
Amendment negatived.
Clause 263 agreed to.
Clause 264 agreed to.
Clause 265 agreed to.
Clauses 266 to 268, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Proposed new clause 268A.
MR COE (Yerrabi—Leader of the Opposition) (6.26): I move amendment No 79 circulated in my name, which inserts a new clause 268A [see schedule 1 at page 1642]. This amendment introduces a new provision based on section 150 of the Road Transport (Third-Party Insurance) Act 2008, which allows for urgent court proceedings. We think that it is a very important additional element or feature of this bill that will allow for fast tracking of some issues.
MR BARR (Kurrajong—Chief Minister, Treasurer, Minister for Social Inclusion and Equality, Minister for Tourism and Special Events and Minister for Trade, Industry and Investment) (6.26): The government’s view is this amendment is not necessary as chapter 5 of the Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002 already applies to chapter 5 of this bill. There is no need to double up on the same provision when it will already apply. I advise the Assembly that a note is being included with government amendments to clause 255 to alert the reader that section 79 of the Civil Law (Wrongs) Act 2002 has application to the bill.
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