Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move opposition amendments (1) to (4), (8), (10), (12), (14) and (15) on sheet 7049 revised:

(3)    Clause 3, page 3 (lines 8 to 22), omit paragraph (1)(b).

(4)    Clause 4, page 5 (lines 9 to 26), omit the fourth and fifth dot points.

(5)    Clause 5, page 7 (line 2), omit the definition of Commonwealth ownership provisions.

(6)    Clause 5, page 7 (lines 14 to 16), omit the definitions of declared pre-termination period and declared sale deferral period.

(7)    Clause 43, page 37 (lines 5 to 22), omit the first and second dot points.

(8)    Heading to Subdivision B, page 39 (lines 6 and 7), omit the heading, substitute:

Subdivision B—Productivity Commission Inquiry

(9)    Clause 49, page 41 (lines 19 to 22), omit subclause (1), substitute:

        (1)    This section applies if it is proposed to enter into an NBN Co sale scheme and there has not been a previous reference to the Productivity Commission under this section.

(10)  Clause 52, page 46 (lines 10 and 11), omit “unless the Commonwealth ownership provisions have ceased to have effect”, substitute “until 15 sitting days after the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Ownership of NBN Co has reported to both Houses of the Parliament”.

(11)  Clause 53, page 46 (lines 16 and 17), omit “unless the Commonwealth ownership provisions have ceased to have effect under section 51”, substitute “until the completion of 15 sitting days after the Parliamentary Joint Committee on the Ownership of NBN Co has reported to both Houses of the Parliament, under paragraph 3(1)(b) of Schedule 2, on the Committee’s examination of the report of the Productivity Commission inquiry mentioned in section 49”.

I seek the guidance of the chair as to whether I should move amendments (9), (11) and (13) noting that they will need to be put separately.