Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Hansard source

I understand that the matter you're raising now is also reflected in amendments that you've circulated in the chamber that pursue the same issues. The advice we received from the department is that those amendments are not required, because the effect of those is already reflected in the legislation. I can step through that in a moment. It would require me to find the relevant piece of paper. Essentially, as I understand it, your proposed amendment seeks to replicate matters which are laid out in the protocol itself. The advice from the department is that that is redundant and that repeating it in our legislation risks having our legislation become outdated should the protocol itself be updated. The legislation as proposed before the chamber at the moment references back to the London protocol and the documents that are attached to it, and it's for that reason that we don't consider it is legally required in the legislation we're now considering.