Steven Ciobo (Moncrieff, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade, Tourism and Investment) Share this | Link to 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.

Rob Mitchell (McEwen, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the amendments be agreed to.

Question agreed to.

The question now is that this bill, as amended, be agreed to.

Question agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.