Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

by leave—I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and a correction to the explanatory memorandum and I move government amendments (1) to (4) as circulated together:

(1) Schedule 1, page 6 (after line 2), after item 19, insert:

19A At the end of subsection 19(1)

Add:

Note: This Act does not apply if a prescribed ship is a ship registered in the Australian International Shipping Register, see paragraph 61AA(b) of the Shipping Registration Act 1981.

(2) Schedule 1, item 20, page 6 (lines 5 to 8), omit subsection 19(1AA).

(3) Schedule 1, item 20, page 6 (line 9), omit "(1AB)", substitute "(1AA)".

(4) Schedule 2, item 3, page 9 (line 2), omit "permit", substitute "licence".

These are technical amendments to be made to the Coastal Trading (Revitalising Australian Shipping) (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provision) Bill 2012. A technical correction is being made to item 3 of part 2, schedule 2, of the bill to replace 'permit' with 'licence'. Further, a redundant provision is being deleted in view of the insertion of a provision in the Shipping Registration Amendment (Australian International Shipping Register) Bill 2012 which effectively provides that the Seafarers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1992 does not apply in relation to a vessel registered in the Australian International Shipping Register To aid users of the seafarers act a note is inserted after subsection 19(1) of that act to alert readers to the non-application of the seafarers act to vessels registered in the Australian International Shipping Register.

I commend the bill, as amended, to the House.

Warren Truss (Wide Bay, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker Scott, the coalition will not be opposing these amendments and, for that matter, the other amendments that the minister is proposing to move. I make one observation, and that is that this process has been a shambles. The fact that there are such significant amendments, large numbers of amendments, being made at the last moment and that there is a new explanatory memorandum, and then corrections to the explanatory memorandum, just demonstrate that this process has been a shambles. Having said that, we think that most of the amendments are probably an improvement and, therefore, we are not going to oppose them. The final point I make is that, while the coalition are opposed to the package, we will not be calling 10 divisions, to suit the convenience of the House.

Question agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.