Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and Revenue) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I rise on a point of order. I draw your attention to standing order 160, which relates to the need for amendments to a Senate message to be within the scope of the amendments as put in place by the Senate. I put it to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, that many of the amendments now being moved by the Treasurer sit outside the scope of the amendments as relayed from the Senate.

The Senate made some very specific amendments to this bill. They went only to some changes in the authorisation regime and the Trade Practices Act. There were no amendments made under the section 50 regime of the Trade Practices Act. I also put it to you, Mr Deputy Speaker, that many more amendments may be outside the scope of the Senate amendments, but those amendments moved by the Treasurer which relate to section 50 of the Trade Practices Act—which was not amended by the Senate—are outside the scope of this debate and on that basis should be ruled out of order.

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