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Wednesday, 24 September 1997
Page: 6890


Senator ELLISON (Minister for Customs and Consumer Affairs and Minister Assisting the Attorney-General)(4.56 p.m.) —For the record, the government opposes this amendment. The government's view is that the effect of the amendment, if passed, would be that if you disallowed part of an instrument, albeit only a word or two, that would strike down the whole instrument. The government says that this would be too draconian and opposes it for that reason.