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- Tobacco Plain Packaging Bill 2011, Trade Marks Amendment (Tobacco Plain Packaging) Bill 2011
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- Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Amendment (National Regulator) Bill 2011, Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage (Registration Fees) Amendment Bill 2011, Offshore Petroleum (Royalty) Amendment Bill 2011, Offshore Resources Legislation Amendment (Personal Property Securities) Bill 2011, Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Regulatory Levies Legislation Amendment (2011 Measures No. 2) Bill 2011
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Member for Dobell
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Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act
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(Bilyk, Sen Catryna, Arbib, Sen Mark)
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Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Question No. 371)
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Defence: Staffing (Question No. 735)
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Naltrexone (Question No. 835)
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IP Australia (Question No. 891)
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Defence: Special Purpose Aircraft (Question No. 898)
(Abetz, Sen Eric, Evans, Sen Christopher)
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Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (Question No. 371)
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Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) (12:57): The opposition supports the Legislative Instruments Amendment (Sunsetting) Bill 2011. The purpose of the bill is to provide that legislative instruments uniformly remain in force for a period of 10 years after they are made. As we know, legislative instruments usually remain in force for 10 years after they are made and are subject to review before the end of that period. That has been the case for many years. However, the effect of the current section 50 of the Legislative Instruments Act is that instruments with retrospective commencement dates can sunset before that time or even sunset before they are made.
The proposed amendment addresses that anomaly by ensuring that legislative instruments sunset 10 years from the time of their registration on the Federal Register of Legislative Instruments rather than from the time of their coming into force. The stated intention of the amendment is to achieve the dual policy aim of allowing instruments 10 years of operation and ensuring that regulation is reviewed on a regular basis. As I have said, this seems an appropriate piece of legislation to remove an anomaly and it has the opposition's support.