Statutes Amendment Bill

Members, we come now to Part 13. Part 13 is the debate on clauses 49 to 57—“Amendments to Crown Entities Act 2004”—and Schedule 1. The question is that Part 13 stand part.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I was pleased to see some amendments to the Crown Entities Act 2004 because this falls within the area for which I am spokesperson for our party. Unfortunately, there is not much substantive changes to comment on in here and I think most of the changes speak for themselves.

I just do have a very quick question for the Minister in relation to clause 57, and that is: is there a more effective way of describing, essentially, which schedule we’re referring to? Because if you read through this, and this is kind of more of a drafting question, but I do think because this is minor and consequential amendments, that is worth raising within that context. Throughout Part 13, we talk about existing statutes that we are amending. Then we get to clause 57 and it states that amendments to other legislation are set out in Schedule 1. Now, the first Schedule 1 I looked at was actually in relation to the Archives Act, and of course, that was wrong. It’s the Schedule 1 that is in this Act which sets out a number of additional name changes to public entities. And so I just wonder if there was a clearer way of showing that the Schedule 1 we’re actually referring to is the Schedule 1 of this Act and not any of the forementioned other enactments which we are amending.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I’ll take some advice from officials on that. Clause 57 isn’t within my pack because it wasn’t changed. But if your point that you’ve raised is relevant to any changes, I’ll take advice from them on that.

Part 13 agreed to.

Part 14 Amendments to Defence Act 1990, and Schedule 2