Tuesday, 30 August 2022

Committees

Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee

Alert Digest No. 12

Mr GEPP (Northern Victoria) (12:30): Pursuant to section 35 of the Parliamentary Committees Act 2003, I lay on the table Alert Digest No. 12 of 2022 from the Scrutiny of Acts and Regulations Committee, including appendices. I move:

That the report be published.

In doing so I just want to draw the chamber’s attention to one matter that is in relation to the Energy Legislation Amendment (Transition from Coal) Bill 2022 brought by Dr Ratnam. Just to clarify, there is a note in the report that says that:

The Committee notes the general purposes of the Bill are to prohibit specified activities by 2030. The Committee draws the Member’s attention to paragraph A(iii) of the Practice Note.

I just wanted to provide clarity that in ordinary circumstances, what we would do where there is no explanation provided to the house is write to the member and invite the member to then provide that explanation, and we would table that in a subsequent report. However, on this occasion, although it is mentioned in the report, the bill in fact addresses that very issue so there is no need. We felt as a committee that it was important that we put on the record an explanation as to that part of the report.

Motion agreed to.