Bill returned from the Senate with amendments.

Ordered that the amendments be taken into consideration forthwith.

Senate's amendments—

(1)   Clause 2, page 2 (after line 7), at the end of the clause, add:

(5)   Schedule 17 commences immediately after the commencement of item 75 of Schedule 16 to the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996 .

(2)   Schedule 13, item 8, page 30 (lines 18 to 27), omit subsection (2A), substitute:

   (2A)   For the purposes of subsection (1), the maximum permissible period for the keeping of personal information of the kind referred to in paragraph 18E(1)(ba) is the period of 5 years beginning on the day when the credit reporting agency is informed of the overdue payment concerned.

(3)   Page 39 (after line 20), at the end of the bill, add:

Schedule 17—Amendment of the Workplace Relations and Other Legislation Amendment Act 1996

1 Subparagraph 75(1)(b)(ii) of Schedule 16

   Omit "Registrar of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal", substitute "Industrial Registrar of the Australian Industrial Relations Commission".