CLASSIFICATION (PUBLICATIONS, FILMS AND COMPUTER GAMES) (R18+ COMPUTER GAMES) AMENDMENT BILL

Final Stages

The Legislative Council agreed to the bill with the amendments indicated by the following schedule, to which amendments the Legislative Council desires the concurrence of the House of Assembly:

No. 1. Clause 5, page 3, line 9 [clause 5, inserted paragraph (c)]—

Delete 'prescribed by' and substitute 'set out in'

No. 2. Clause 10, page 5, line 20 [clause 10, inserted section 60A(3)(c)]—

Delete 'prescribed by' and substitute 'set out in'

No. 3. Clause 18, page 7, lines 12 to 28—Leave out the clause

Consideration in committee.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: I move:

That the Legislative Council's amendments be agreed to.

First of all, it is nice to see that this piece of legislation is passing and I am grateful for the support of those in another place. Because it is a happy occasion I will not dwell on the unhappy bit but I just make the observation that the amendments actually are quite cosmetic—and why they in another place bothered doing this!

Just for the record, so that those thousands of South Australians who will be reading this in Hansard tomorrow will know what we are talking about, in our bill we had the words 'prescribed by' which I gather is a pretty normal formulation but apparently other minds prefer 'set out in' and that warranted sending the matter back here for further consideration. Compared to some of the other send backs I have had, this is a very untroubling send back. It is an entirely cosmetic amendment. It makes no difference to anything. I am just raising it in the general sense about how I am not quite sure why we are doing this.

Ms Chapman: What about clause 18?

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Yes, well, again—it is cosmetic because it doesn't make any difference, you see. Anyway, we—

The CHAIR: The gist of it you agree with.

The Hon. J.R. RAU: Yes, you have captured what I was trying to get up to.

The CHAIR: Member for Bragg, do you wish to contribute to this debate at all? You can say no. It is permitted. You could actually set a precedent here.

Ms CHAPMAN: I am inspired—

The CHAIR: You are inspired?

Ms CHAPMAN: —by the Attorney-General's contribution.

The CHAIR: Right. That is what I was concerned about. And the gist of your comments is?

Ms CHAPMAN: With his opening remarks, I concur. I have no idea what amendment No. 3 is, having just had it put underneath me, but given the government's acceptance of the amendments I certainly will not stand in the way of it being received. I also look forward to the passage of this bill.

Motion carried.