SECOND-HAND GOODS BILL

Committee Stage

In committee.

Clauses 1 and 2 passed.

Clause 3.

The Hon. R.L. BROKENSHIRE: I wish to advise the committee that I am withdrawing my amendment and, as this was a test clause, I also advise that I withdraw all associated amendments.

Clause passed.

Remaining clauses (4 to 78), schedule and title passed.

Bill reported without amendment.

Third Reading

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (Minister for Sustainability, Environment and Conservation, Minister for Water and the River Murray, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation) (15:39): I move:

That this bill be now read a third time.

The Hon. T.A. FRANKS (15:40): I draw members' attention to my consultations with the music instrument sales industry. I wrote to a number of those involved in the music industry, and they were all supportive of a more stringent control, particularly of musical instruments, under our current schemes.

I draw members' attention to the case of Mixmasters, which had $150,000 worth of musical audio equipment stolen from their Unley Road shop and warehouse. It was incredibly devastating to them. They had just moved in, and they were waiting for security to be completed for insurance purposes. They had an enormously difficult time tracking down those pieces of equipment.

The music industry rallied around them. Messages were put out on social media, they made individual visits to various second-hand dealers and, of course, they dealt with the police. But basically because a scheme such as the one we are passing today did not exist, they had to do all of that footwork themselves. Even though they could identify that the equipment was theirs, they had great difficulty with tracking it down. As I have said, a centralised database such as the one we are going to be moving to would have made their life much easier and made their business much more viable.

Certainly, while the police attempted to assist to the capacity they had then, I believe that, should an incident happen after we pass this bill and it passes into law, things would be different. With respect to the situation of Mixmasters, where they spent several months trying to track down their stolen equipment—where they could find their equipment—in various resellers or, in fact, in share houses and so on, their life would have been made much easier had we had such a system as we are discussing today. As I have said, those in the music industry I have spoken to (and I am happy to forward that correspondence onto the minister for follow-up) were very supportive of the laws we are passing today.

The council divided on the third reading:

Majority of 1 for the noes.

Third reading thus negatived.