Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I think that we were talking past each other a little bit there. Your previous question, in relation to an educative approach, I had taken to mean how the agency approaches participants at large. Your question really is about what the approach of the agency is going to be in relation to 'legitimate and reasonable'—whether it is by error or whatever—during the period between 28 days after royal assent, when the act is in operation, and when the new framework applies, 12 to18 months after that. The evidence that the agency gave, as I understand it, is consistent with how the government understands that it will operate, which is that the educative approach—that is, not a punitive approach—is the approach that the agency intends to take. I hope that assists.