Consideration resumed from 27 October.

Senate’s amendments—

(1)    Clause 2, page 2 (at the end of the table), add:

(2)    Schedule 2, item 13, page 10 (lines 27 and 28), omit paragraph (1AA)(c).

(3)    Schedule 2, item 32, page 14 (lines 8 and 9), omit paragraph (4A)(c).

(4)    Schedule 2, item 32, page 14 (lines 20 and 21), omit paragraph (4B)(d).

(5)    Page 22 (after line 23), at the end of the bill, add:

Schedule 4—Appointment of Federal Court Judges to State Supreme Courts

Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

1 Subsection 6(7) (at the end of the definition of prescribed court)

Add:

      ; or (d)    the Supreme Court of a State.

(6)Page 22 (after line 23), at the end of the bill, add:

Schedule 5—Registries

Federal Court of Australia Act 1976

1 At the end of section 34

Add:

        (3)    The Registrar shall cause at least one Registry in each State to be staffed on a full-time basis with the complement of staff in each such Registry to include a full-time Registrar.

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