Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Hansard source

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill. I ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (3) together.

Leave granted.

I move:

(1) Title, page 1 (line 2), omit ", broadcasting and criminal", substitute "and broadcasting".

(2) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 3), omit the table item.

(3) Schedule 2, page 46 (line 1) to page 48 (line 4), omit the Schedule.

As I detailed to the House in my summing-up remarks, this amendment will remove schedule 2 of the bill, which concerns the criminalisation of impersonating a Commonwealth entity under the Criminal Code. The government remains committed to legislating to criminalise the impersonation of a Commonwealth entity. Separate legislation will deal with this issue in the future.

I commend this amendment to the House.

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