Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

As a consequence of the actions of the Senate this evening, I move consequential amendment (1) on sheet 5701:

(1)    Schedule 2, page 7 (lines 16 and 17), omit “after the making of the first determination under subclause 5G(1),”, substitute “from 1 April 2009”.

This amendment flows from our agreement to the government’s amendments, which effectively remove the trigger for the reporting that the Senate requires on transmission black spots. We need to substitute a new trigger date. Very simply, our amendment substitutes a trigger date of 1 April 2009 so that, every quarter after 1 April 2009, the government will be required to lay on the table of each house of the parliament quarterly reports as set out in our original amendment 5H, Reports on Transmission Black Spots. As I say, it is a technical but necessary consequential amendment to ensure that the legislation provides a start date for the quarterly reports which the Senate, in its wisdom, has deemed appropriate for the parliament to follow.