Senator VANSTONE (Minister for Employment, Education, Training and Youth Affairs)(5.22 p.m.) —I table a supplementary explanatory memorandum relating to the government amendments to be moved to this bill. For the information of honourable senators, this memorandum was circulated in the chamber on 27 November this year. While I am still on my feet, I seek leave to move the government amendments.

Leave granted.

Senator VANSTONE —I move:

(1)   Clause 1, page 1 (line 7), after "Funding ", insert "Laws ".

(2)   Page 3 (after line 11), at the end of the Bill, add:

Schedule 2—Amendment of the Australian National Training Authority Act 1992

1 Paragraph 24(1)(c)

   Repeal the paragraph, substitute:

      (c)   5 other members.

2 Subsection 24(2)

   Omit "2 vacancies", substitute "3 vacancies".

3 Subsections 36(3) and (5)

   Omit "3 members", substitute "4 members".

4 Section 38

   Omit "3 members", substitute "4 members".

(3)   Title, page 1 (lines 1 and 2), omit "the Vocational Education Training Funding Act 1992 ", substitute "certain laws relating to vocational education and training".