Bill returned from the Senate with amendments.

Ordered that the amendments be considered immediately.

Senate’s amendments—

(1)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 4 (line 15), after “a person”, insert “(the discloser)”.

(2)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 4 (lines 22 to 28), omit paragraph 285A(1)(c), substitute:

             (c)    the emergency management person has given the discloser a written notice stating that the disclosure is for the purpose of the information, or the contents of the document, being later used or disclosed for either or both of the following:

                   (i)    for a purpose connected with persons being alerted to an emergency or a likely emergency;

                  (ii)    for the purpose of reasonable testing of whether, in the event of an emergency occurring, persons would be able to be alerted to that emergency.

(3)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 4 (after line 28), after subsection 285A(1), insert:

     (1A)    A notice given as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) may cover one or more disclosures (including each disclosure in a series of disclosures under an arrangement between the discloser and the emergency management person).

      (1B)    A notice given as mentioned in paragraph (1)(c) is not a legislative instrument.

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