Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to replace amendment (29) with amendment R(29) on sheet 5208 revised.

Leave granted.

I realise the government understands the importance of amendment (29), in any event. It amends the definition of representative bodies to include prescribed bodies for the purposes of this division. Amendments R(29A), R(29B) and R(29C) will mean that when a prescribed body corporate is replaced by another under section 60 of the act, the remaining funding will need to be returned to the Commonwealth. In effect, the replacing prescribed body corporate will need to reapply for fresh funding. Amendments R(29A) to R(29C) ensure there is consistency throughout, particularly sections 203C and 203CA(1A)(a), but I will not go into the technicalities of it. It does not change the nature of what we are seeking to do in (29); it just tidies up how it would operate.