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Title

WHEAT MARKETING AMENDMENT BILL 2007

In Committee

Database

Senate Hansard

Date

21-06-2007

Source

Senate

Parl No.

41

Electorate

Tasmania

Interjector

 

Page

122

Party

ALP

Presenter

 

Status

Final

Question No.

 

Questioner

 

Responder

 

Speaker

O’Brien, Sen Kerry

Stage

In Committee

Type

 

Context

Miscellaneous

System Id

chamber/hansards/2007-06-21/0207


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Thursday, 21 June 2007
Page: 122


Senator O’BRIEN (3:48 PM) —by leave—I move opposition amendments (2) to (7) on sheet 5307:

(2)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (line 12), omit “request”, substitute “require”.

(3)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (line 17), omit “Request”, substitute “Requirement to produce information and documents”.

(4)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 3 (line 18), omit “request”, substitute “require”.

(5)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 4 (line 10), omit “Request”, substitute “Requirement to produce report”.

(6)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 4 (line 11), omit “request”, substitute “require”.

(7)    Schedule 1, item 2, page 4 (after line 17), after section 5DB, insert:

5DBA Failure to produce information, documents or a report

                  If a person fails to produce information, documents or a report in accordance with section 5DA or 5DB, as the case may be, the person is guilty of an offence.

Penalty:    (a) in the case of a natural person—600 penalty units; or

                   (b) in the case of a body corporate—5,000 penalty units.

I have debated these amendments substantially. These amendments replace the empowerment of the authority or the commission to request information, replacing it with the power to require the production of information. I have debated the reasons for that. With respect to amendment (7), because we would see this as being a power to compel, the failure to comply ought have a penalty. This amendment contains penalty provisions, based on the current Criminal Code penalty of $110 per unit. In our view, if we are going to have real teeth for the regulator, this is the sort of provision that is necessary. We are still unable to fathom the government’s resistance to this proposition.