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Queensland
Parliament of Queensland
(Reform and Modernisation)
Amendment Bill 2011
Queensland
Parliament of Queensland (Reform and
Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Contents
Page
Part 1 Preliminary
1 Short title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Commencement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Part 2 Amendment of Legislative Standards Act 1992
3 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
4 Amendment of s 22 (Explanatory note must be tabled with Bill or
significant subordinate legislation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
5 Amendment of s 24 (Content of explanatory note for significant
subordinate legislation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
Division 1 Preliminary
6 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Division 2 Amendments commencing on assent
7 Insertion of new ch 5, pt 1A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Part 1A Committee of the Legislative Assembly
Division 1 Establishment and operation
79A Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
79B Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
79C Chairperson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
79D Quorum and voting at meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Division 2 Role of committee
79E Areas of responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
79F Ethical conduct--registration of interests . . . . . . . . . . 10
79G Ethical conduct--code of conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
79H Parliamentary powers, rights and immunities. . . . . . . 11
8 Amendment of s 80 (Establishment of statutory committees) . . . 12
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9 Amendment of s 83 (Purpose of pts 3 and 4). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
10 Amendment of s 90 (Areas of responsibility of Integrity, Ethics
and Parliamentary Privileges Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
11 Omission of s 91 (Ethical conduct--registration of interests) . . . . 12
12 Amendment of s 92 (Ethical conduct--code of conduct) . . . . . . . 12
13 Omission of s 93 (Parliamentary powers, rights and immunities). 13
14 Omission of ch 5, pt 4, div 5 (Standing Orders Committee) . . . . . 13
15 Amendment of s 107 (Ministerial response to committee report). 13
16 Amendment of s 112 (Additional salary entitlement of some
members) ..................................... 13
17 Amendment of schedule (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Division 3 Other amendments
18 Amendment of long title . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
19 Amendment of s 9 (Meaning of proceedings in the Assembly) . . 14
20 Amendment of s 11 (Standing rules and orders may be made) . . 14
21 Amendment of s 65 (Meaning of paid public appointment and
related appointment) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
22 Amendment of s 69C (Registrar) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
23 Amendment of s 78 (Main object of ch 5 and its achievement) . . 15
24 Amendment of s 79 (Definitions for ch 5) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
25 Amendment of s 79E (Areas of responsibility) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
26 Omission of ch 5, pt 2 (Establishment). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
27 Renumbering of ch 5, pt 1A (Committee of the Legislative
Assembly) ..................................... 17
28 Renumbering of ss 79A-79H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
29 Replacement of ch 5, pt 3 (Role of statutory committees) . . . . . . 17
Part 3 Portfolio committees
Division 1 Establishment and operation
88 Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
89 Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
90 Chairperson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
91 Quorum and voting at meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Division 2 Role of portfolio committees
92 Role generally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
93 Legislation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
30 Omission of ch 5, pt 4 hdg and pt 4, divs 1, 2 and div 3 hdg . . . . 20
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31 Amendment of s 95 (Areas of responsibility of Public Accounts
and Public Works Committee) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
32 Amendment of s 96 (Reference of issues to auditor-general) . . . 21
33 Amendment of s 97 (Meaning of constructing authority for
works) ........................................ 21
34 Amendment of s 98 (Issues to which committee may have
regard) ....................................... 21
35 Amendment of s 99 (Entry and inspection of places). . . . . . . . . . 22
36 Amendment of s 100 (Restriction on procurement of capital
works project) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
37 Amendment of s 101 (Dealing with commercially sensitive
information in private session) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
38 Amendment of s 102 (Reporting commercially sensitive
information to Assembly) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
39 Renumbering of ss 95-102 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
40 Omission of ch 5, pt 4, div 4 (Scrutiny of Legislation Committee) 23
41 Insertion of new ch 5, pt 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Part 4 Ethics Committee
Division 1 Establishment and operation
102 Establishment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
103 Membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
104 Chairperson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
104A Quorum and voting at meetings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Division 2 Role of committee
104B Areas of responsibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
104C Complaints about ethical conduct . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
42 Amendment of s 107 (Ministerial response to committee report). 26
43 Amendment of s 112 (Additional salary entitlement of some
members) ...................................... 26
44 Insertion of new ch 10, pt 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Part 5 Parliament of Queensland (Reform and
Modernisation) Amendment Act 2011
168 Definitions for pt 5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
169 Committee of the Legislative Assembly . . . . . . . . . . . 27
170 Initial membership of Ethics Committee . . . . . . . . . . . 28
171 Continuation of Scrutiny of Legislation Committee for
transitional period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
172 Material held by committees. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
173 Additional salary of Manager of Opposition Business 29
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174 Additional salary of committee chairpersons . . . . . . . 29
175 Transitional--waivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
45 Amendment of schedule (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
Division 1 Amendment of Auditor-General Act 2009
46 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
47 Amendment of s 70 (Report of strategic review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
48 Amendment of schedule (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Division 2 Amendment of Criminal Organisation Act 2009
49 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
50 Amendment of s 85 (Procedure before appointment as COPIM). 33
51 Amendment of s 91 (Functions of Law, Justice and Safety
Committee) ..................................... 33
52 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Division 3 Amendment of Electoral Act 1992
53 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
54 Amendment of s 3 (Definitions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Division 4 Amendment of Information Privacy Act 2009
55 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
56 Amendment of s 195 (Functions of parliamentary committee). . . 35
57 Amendment of sch 5 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Division 5 Amendment of Integrity Act 2009
58 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
59 Amendment of s 88 (Report of strategic review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
60 Amendment of s 89 (Functions of parliamentary committee). . . . 36
61 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Division 6 Amendment of Ombudsman Act 2001
62 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
63 Amendment of s 85 (Report of strategic review) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
64 Amendment of s 89 (Functions) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
65 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Division 7 Amendment of Right to Information Act 2009
66 Act amended . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
67 Amendment of s 188 (Report of strategic review) . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
68 Amendment of s 189 (Functions of parliamentary committee). . . 39
69 Amendment of sch 6 (Dictionary) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
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2011
A Bill
for
An Act to amend the Auditor-General Act 2009, Criminal
Organisation Act 2009, Electoral Act 1992, Information Privacy
Act 2009, Integrity Act 2009, Legislative Standards Act 1992,
Ombudsman Act 2001, Parliament of Queensland Act 2001 and
Right to Information Act 2009 for particular purposes
Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 1 Preliminary
[s 1]
The Parliament of Queensland enacts-- 1
Part 1 Preliminary 2
Clause 1 Short title 3
This Act may be cited as the Parliament of Queensland 4
(Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Act 2011. 5
Clause 2 Commencement 6
(1) The following provisions are taken to have commenced on 10 7
March 2011-- 8
· part 3 heading 9
· part 3, division 1 10
· section 43(1) 11
· section 44, to the extent it inserts new-- 12
· part 5 heading 13
· section 169, other than section 169(3) 14
· section 173 15
· section 45(2), to the extent it inserts new definition 16
Manager of Opposition Business. 17
(2) The following provisions commence on assent-- 18
· part 2 19
· part 3, division 2 20
· section 44, to the extent it inserts new section 169(3). 21
(3) The remaining provisions of this Act commence on a day to 22
be fixed by proclamation. 23
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Part 2 Amendment of Legislative Standards Act 1992
[s 3]
Part 2 Amendment of Legislative 1
Standards Act 1992 2
Clause 3 Act amended 3
This part amends the Legislative Standards Act 1992. 4
Clause 4 Amendment of s 22 (Explanatory note must be tabled 5
with Bill or significant subordinate legislation) 6
Section 22, `significant'-- 7
omit. 8
Clause 5 Amendment of s 24 (Content of explanatory note for 9
significant subordinate legislation) 10
(1) Section 24, heading, `significant'-- 11
omit. 12
(2) Section 24(1), `significant'-- 13
omit. 14
(3) Section 24(3), `The'-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`For significant subordinate legislation, the'. 17
(4) Section 24(5), after `However,'-- 18
insert-- 19
`for significant subordinate legislation,'. 20
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 6]
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of 1
Queensland Act 2001 2
Division 1 Preliminary 3
Clause 6 Act amended 4
This part amends the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001. 5
Division 2 Amendments commencing on 6
assent 7
Clause 7 Insertion of new ch 5, pt 1A 8
Chapter 5-- 9
insert-- 10
`Part 1A Committee of the Legislative 11
Assembly 12
`Division 1 Establishment and operation 13
`79A Establishment 14
`The Committee of the Legislative Assembly is established. 15
`79B Membership 16
`(1) The committee comprises the following members-- 17
(a) the Leader of the House or alternate; 18
(b) the Premier or alternate; 19
(c) the Deputy Premier or alternate; 20
(d) the Manager of Opposition Business or alternate; 21
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 7]
(e) the Leader of the Opposition or alternate; 1
(f) the Deputy Leader of the Opposition or alternate; 2
(g) when the committee is dealing with a matter relating to 3
the standing rules and orders--the Speaker. 4
`(2) In this section-- 5
alternate, in relation to a member, means another member of 6
the Assembly nominated by the first member to perform the 7
first member's role as a member of the committee. 8
`79C Chairperson 9
`The Leader of the House is to be the chairperson of the 10
committee. 11
`79D Quorum and voting at meetings 12
`At a meeting of the committee-- 13
(a) a quorum is 4 members other than the Speaker; and 14
(b) a question is decided by a majority of the votes of the 15
members present and voting; and 16
(c) each member has a vote on each question to be decided 17
and, if the votes are equal, the chairperson has a casting 18
vote. 19
`Division 2 Role of committee 20
`79E Areas of responsibility 21
`The committee has the following areas of responsibility-- 22
(a) the ethical conduct of members; 23
Note-- 24
However, under section 92(3), a complaint about a particular 25
member not complying with the code of ethical conduct for 26
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 7]
members may be considered only by the Assembly or the 1
Integrity, Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee. 2
(b) parliamentary powers, rights and immunities; 3
(c) standing rules and orders about the conduct of business 4
by, and the practices and the procedures of, the 5
Assembly and its committees; 6
(d) any other matters for which the committee is given 7
responsibility under the standing rules and orders. 8
`79F Ethical conduct--registration of interests 9
`The committee's area of responsibility about the ethical 10
conduct of members includes-- 11
(a) examining the arrangements, under resolutions or the 12
standing rules and orders of the Assembly, for 13
compiling, keeping and allowing inspection of-- 14
(i) a register of the interests of members; and 15
(ii) a register of the interests of persons related to 16
members; and 17
(b) considering proposals made by members and other 18
persons about the form and content of the registers and 19
documents relevant to the registers, including statements 20
of interests to be made by members; and 21
(c) considering the classes of person who should be treated 22
as related to a member; and 23
(d) publishing explanatory information about the 24
requirements to register interests; and 25
(e) any other responsibility about the registration of 26
interests the Assembly may order the committee to 27
have; and 28
(f) considering any other issue about the registration of 29
interests. 30
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 7]
`79G Ethical conduct--code of conduct 1
`(1) The committee's area of responsibility about the ethical 2
conduct of members includes-- 3
(a) publishing and reviewing a code of ethical conduct for 4
members (other than members in their capacity as 5
Ministers), including procedures for complaints about a 6
member not complying with the code; and 7
(b) the reform of legislation and standing rules and orders 8
about the ethical conduct of members, including the 9
registration or declaration of interests; and 10
(c) publishing explanatory information about the 11
obligations of members about their ethical conduct; and 12
(d) any other responsibility about the ethical conduct of 13
members the Assembly may order the committee to 14
have. 15
`(2) In reviewing the code of ethical conduct for members, the 16
committee must have regard to-- 17
(a) the ethics principles and values set out in the Public 18
Sector Ethics Act 1994; and 19
(b) the desirability of consistency between standards in the 20
code of ethical conduct and the ethics principles and 21
values, to the extent the principles and values are 22
relevant to members and their functions. 23
`79H Parliamentary powers, rights and immunities 24
`The committee's area of responsibility about parliamentary 25
powers, rights and immunities includes the powers, rights and 26
immunities of the Assembly and its committees and 27
members.'. 28
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 8]
Clause 8 Amendment of s 80 (Establishment of statutory 1
committees) 2
Section 80, last dot point-- 3
omit. 4
Clause 9 Amendment of s 83 (Purpose of pts 3 and 4) 5
(1) Section 83(2), after `committee'-- 6
insert-- 7
`other than the Committee of the Legislative Assembly'. 8
(2) Section 83-- 9
insert-- 10
`Note-- 11
Part 1A, division 2 sets out the areas of responsibility of the Committee 12
of the Legislative Assembly.'. 13
Clause 10 Amendment of s 90 (Areas of responsibility of Integrity, 14
Ethics and Parliamentary Privileges Committee) 15
Section 90, last dot point-- 16
omit. 17
Clause 11 Omission of s 91 (Ethical conduct--registration of 18
interests) 19
Section 91-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 12 Amendment of s 92 (Ethical conduct--code of conduct) 22
(1) Section 92, heading, `--code of conduct'-- 23
omit. 24
(2) Section 92(1) and (2)-- 25
omit, insert-- 26
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 13]
`(1) The committee's area of responsibility about the ethical 1
conduct of members is to-- 2
(a) consider complaints referred to the committee about the 3
failure to register particular interests; and 4
(b) consider complaints against particular members for 5
failing to comply with the code of ethical conduct, 6
report on complaints to the Assembly and recommend 7
action by the Assembly.'. 8
Clause 13 Omission of s 93 (Parliamentary powers, rights and 9
immunities) 10
Section 93-- 11
omit. 12
Clause 14 Omission of ch 5, pt 4, div 5 (Standing Orders Committee) 13
Chapter 5, part 4, division 5-- 14
omit. 15
Clause 15 Amendment of s 107 (Ministerial response to committee 16
report) 17
Section 107(1)(b), after `report of'-- 18
insert-- 19
`the Committee of the Legislative Assembly or'. 20
Clause 16 Amendment of s 112 (Additional salary entitlement of 21
some members) 22
Section 112(2), `, other than the Standing Orders 23
Committee,'-- 24
omit. 25
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 17]
Clause 17 Amendment of schedule (Dictionary) 1
Schedule, definition statutory committee-- 2
omit, insert-- 3
`statutory committee means-- 4
(a) for chapter 5, part 2--a statutory committee established 5
under section 80; or 6
(b) otherwise--the Committee of the Legislative Assembly 7
or a statutory committee established under section 80.'. 8
Division 3 Other amendments 9
Clause 18 Amendment of long title 10
Long title, `continuation of particular committees'-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`establishment of particular committees'. 13
Clause 19 Amendment of s 9 (Meaning of proceedings in the 14
Assembly) 15
Section 9(3), example, `Public Accounts and Public Works 16
Committee'-- 17
omit, insert-- 18
`portfolio committee'. 19
Clause 20 Amendment of s 11 (Standing rules and orders may be 20
made) 21
(1) Section 11(2)(g) and (h)-- 22
renumber as section 11(2)(h) and (i). 23
(2) Section 11(2)-- 24
insert-- 25
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 21]
`(g) the referral of Bills, subordinate legislation or other 1
matters to portfolio committees for consideration and 2
report;'. 3
(3) Section 11(2)-- 4
insert-- 5
`Note-- 6
Also, section 88 provides for the establishment of portfolio committees 7
under the standing rules and orders.'. 8
Clause 21 Amendment of s 65 (Meaning of paid public appointment 9
and related appointment) 10
Section 65(5)(b), `Speaker'-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`registrar'. 13
Clause 22 Amendment of s 69C (Registrar) 14
Section 69C-- 15
insert-- 16
`(5) The registrar must, in accordance with the standing rules and 17
orders, include a copy of each waiver given under section 18
65(5) as part of the register of members' interests.'. 19
Clause 23 Amendment of s 78 (Main object of ch 5 and its 20
achievement) 21
Section 78(2)-- 22
omit, insert-- 23
`(2) The chapter's main object is to be achieved by-- 24
(a) establishing the Committee of the Legislative Assembly 25
with areas of responsibility that include the conduct of 26
the Assembly and the ethical conduct of members; and 27
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 24]
(b) providing for the establishment of a number of portfolio 1
committees with areas of responsibility that collectively 2
cover all areas of government activity; and 3
(c) establishing the Ethics Committee with areas of 4
responsibility that include dealing with complaints 5
about the ethical conduct of members and breaches of 6
parliamentary privilege.'. 7
Clause 24 Amendment of s 79 (Definitions for ch 5) 8
(1) Section 79, definition proposed national scheme legislation-- 9
omit. 10
(2) Section 79, definition commercial entity, `section 97(4)'-- 11
omit, insert-- 12
`section 96(4)'. 13
(3) Section 79, definition constructing authority, `section 97'-- 14
omit, insert-- 15
`section 96'. 16
(4) Section 79, definition public works, `section 95(1)'-- 17
omit, insert-- 18
`section 94(1)(b)'. 19
Clause 25 Amendment of s 79E (Areas of responsibility) 20
Section 79E(a), note-- 21
omit, insert-- 22
`Note-- 23
However, under section 104C(2), a complaint about a particular 24
member not complying with the code of ethical conduct for 25
members may be considered only by the Assembly or the Ethics 26
Committee.'. 27
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 26]
Clause 26 Omission of ch 5, pt 2 (Establishment) 1
Chapter 5, part 2-- 2
omit. 3
Clause 27 Renumbering of ch 5, pt 1A (Committee of the Legislative 4
Assembly) 5
Chapter 5, part 1A-- 6
renumber as part 2. 7
Clause 28 Renumbering of ss 79A-79H 8
Sections 79A to 79H-- 9
renumber as sections 80 to 87. 10
Clause 29 Replacement of ch 5, pt 3 (Role of statutory committees) 11
Chapter 5, part 3-- 12
omit, insert-- 13
`Part 3 Portfolio committees 14
`Division 1 Establishment and operation 15
`88 Establishment 16
`(1) The Assembly must, by standing rules and orders, establish 17
committees of the Assembly under this section (portfolio 18
committees). 19
`(2) The standing rules and orders must state, for each portfolio 20
committee-- 21
(a) its name; and 22
(b) its primary area of responsibility (its portfolio area); 23
and 24
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 29]
(c) the number of its members, which must be an even 1
number and must be at least 6. 2
`(3) Each department must be covered by a portfolio area, whether 3
by allocating the whole department to the portfolio area of a 4
committee or allocating parts of the department to the 5
portfolio areas of different committees. 6
`(4) As soon as practicable after a change in the Administrative 7
Arrangements, the Assembly must prepare and adopt any 8
amendments of the standing rules and orders concerning the 9
portfolio committees that are necessary to comply with this 10
section. 11
`(5) As well as 1 or more departments or parts of departments, a 12
committee's portfolio area may include other government 13
entities and matters. 14
`89 Membership 15
`Half of the members of a portfolio committee are to be 16
nominated by the Leader of the House and half are to be 17
nominated by the Leader of the Opposition. 18
`90 Chairperson 19
`The chairperson of a portfolio committee is to be the member 20
of the committee nominated as chairperson by the Leader of 21
the House. 22
`91 Quorum and voting at meetings 23
`At a meeting of a portfolio committee-- 24
(a) a quorum is half the number of members plus 1; and 25
(b) a question is decided by a majority of the votes of the 26
members present and voting; and 27
(c) each member has a vote on each question to be decided 28
and, if the votes are equal, the chairperson has a casting 29
vote. 30
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 29]
`Division 2 Role of portfolio committees 1
`92 Role generally 2
`(1) In relation to its portfolio area, a committee may-- 3
(a) consider Appropriation Bills; and 4
(b) consider other legislation and proposed legislation as 5
provided in section 93; and 6
(c) perform its role in relation to public accounts and public 7
works as provided in this division. 8
`(2) A committee is to also deal with an issue referred to it by the 9
Assembly or under another Act, whether or not the issue is 10
within its portfolio area. 11
`(3) A committee may deal with a matter under this section by-- 12
(a) considering the matter; and 13
(b) reporting on the matter, and making recommendations 14
about it, to the Assembly. 15
`93 Legislation 16
`(1) A portfolio committee is responsible for examining each Bill 17
and item of subordinate legislation in its portfolio area to 18
consider-- 19
(a) the policy to be given effect by the legislation; and 20
(b) the application of fundamental legislative principles to 21
the legislation; and 22
Note-- 23
Fundamental legislative principles are the principles relating to 24
legislation that underlie a parliamentary democracy based on the 25
rule of law (Legislative Standards Act 1992, section 4(1)). The 26
principles include requiring that legislation has sufficient regard 27
to rights and liberties of individuals and the institution of 28
Parliament. 29
(c) for subordinate legislation--its lawfulness. 30
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 30]
`(2) The committee's responsibility includes monitoring, in 1
relation to legislation in its portfolio area, the operation of-- 2
(a) the Legislative Standards Act 1992, section 4 and part 4; 3
and 4
Editor's note-- 5
· section 4 (Meaning of fundamental legislative principles) 6
· part 4 (Explanatory notes) 7
(b) the Statutory Instruments Act 1992, section 9 and parts 5 8
to 8 and 10. 9
Editor's note-- 10
· section 9 (Meaning of subordinate legislation) 11
· part 5 (Guidelines for regulatory impact statements) 12
· part 6 (Procedures after making of subordinate legislation) 13
· part 7 (Staged automatic expiry of subordinate legislation) 14
· part 8 (Forms) 15
· part 10 (Transitional)'. 16
Clause 30 Omission of ch 5, pt 4 hdg and pt 4, divs 1, 2 and div 3 17
hdg 18
(1) Chapter 5, part 4 heading-- 19
omit. 20
(2) Chapter 5, part 4, divisions 1 and 2-- 21
omit. 22
(3) Chapter 5, part 4, division 3 heading-- 23
omit. 24
Clause 31 Amendment of s 95 (Areas of responsibility of Public 25
Accounts and Public Works Committee) 26
(1) Section 95, heading, `Areas of responsibility of Public 27
Accounts and Public Works Committee'-- 28
omit, insert-- 29
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Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 32]
`Public accounts and public works'. 1
(2) Section 95(1), words before paragraph (a)-- 2
omit, insert-- 3
`(1) A portfolio committee has the following responsibilities to the 4
extent they relate to the committee's portfolio area--'. 5
(3) Section 95(2), `the committee'-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
`a portfolio committee'. 8
Clause 32 Amendment of s 96 (Reference of issues to 9
auditor-general) 10
(1) Section 96, `The Public Accounts and Public Works 11
Committee'-- 12
omit, insert-- 13
`A portfolio committee'. 14
(2) Section 96, `area of responsibility mentioned in section 15
95(1)(a)'-- 16
omit, insert-- 17
`portfolio area mentioned in section 94(1)(a)'. 18
Clause 33 Amendment of s 97 (Meaning of constructing authority 19
for works) 20
Section 97(5), `the committee'-- 21
omit, insert-- 22
`a portfolio committee'. 23
Clause 34 Amendment of s 98 (Issues to which committee may have 24
regard) 25
(1) Section 98, `the Public Accounts and Public Works 26
Committee'-- 27
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 35]
omit, insert-- 1
`a portfolio committee'. 2
(2) Section 98, `section 95(2)(a) to (i)'-- 3
omit, insert-- 4
`section 94(2)(a) to (i)'. 5
Clause 35 Amendment of s 99 (Entry and inspection of places) 6
(1) Section 99(1), `The Public Accounts and Public Works 7
Committee'-- 8
omit, insert-- 9
`A portfolio committee'. 10
(2) Section 99-- 11
insert-- 12
`(7A) If the authorised person enters the place in the occupier's or 13
owner's absence under subsection (7), the authorised person 14
must give to the occupier or owner a written notice, within 7 15
days after the entry, stating-- 16
(a) the authorised person's name; and 17
(b) the purpose for which the place was entered; and 18
(c) the day and time of the entry.'. 19
(3) Section 99(8), definition place, after `premises'-- 20
insert-- 21
`other than residential premises'. 22
(4) Section 99(7A) and (8)-- 23
renumber as section 99(8) and (9). 24
Clause 36 Amendment of s 100 (Restriction on procurement of 25
capital works project) 26
Section 100(1)(a), `the Public Accounts and Public Works 27
Committee'-- 28
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Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 37]
omit, insert-- 1
`a portfolio committee'. 2
Clause 37 Amendment of s 101 (Dealing with commercially 3
sensitive information in private session) 4
Section 101(1), `the Public Accounts and Public Works 5
Committee'-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
`a portfolio committee'. 8
Clause 38 Amendment of s 102 (Reporting commercially sensitive 9
information to Assembly) 10
Section 102(1), `the Public Accounts and Public Works 11
Committee'-- 12
omit, insert-- 13
`a portfolio committee'. 14
Clause 39 Renumbering of ss 95-102 15
Sections 95 to 102-- 16
renumber as sections 94 to 101. 17
Clause 40 Omission of ch 5, pt 4, div 4 (Scrutiny of Legislation 18
Committee) 19
Chapter 5, part 4, division 4-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 41 Insertion of new ch 5, pt 4 22
Chapter 5-- 23
insert-- 24
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Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 41]
`Part 4 Ethics Committee 1
`Division 1 Establishment and operation 2
`102 Establishment 3
`The Ethics Committee is established. 4
`103 Membership 5
`The committee comprises 6 members, being-- 6
(a) 3 members nominated by the Leader of the House; and 7
(b) 3 members nominated by the Leader of the Opposition. 8
`104 Chairperson 9
`The chairperson of the committee is to be the member of the 10
committee nominated as chairperson by the Leader of the 11
House. 12
`104A Quorum and voting at meetings 13
`At a meeting of the committee-- 14
(a) a quorum is 4 members; and 15
(b) a question is decided by a majority of the votes of the 16
members present and voting; and 17
(c) each member has a vote on each question to be decided 18
and, if the votes are equal, the chairperson has a casting 19
vote. 20
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Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 41]
`Division 2 Role of committee 1
`104B Areas of responsibility 2
`The committee has the following areas of responsibility-- 3
· dealing with complaints about the ethical conduct of 4
particular members 5
· dealing with breaches of parliamentary privilege by 6
members of the Assembly and other persons. 7
`104C Complaints about ethical conduct 8
`(1) The committee's area of responsibility about dealing with 9
complaints about the ethical conduct of particular members is 10
to-- 11
(a) consider complaints referred to the committee about 12
particular members failing to register particular 13
interests; and 14
(b) consider complaints against particular members for 15
failing to comply with the code of ethical conduct for 16
members, report on complaints to the Assembly and 17
recommend action by the Assembly. 18
`(2) A complaint about a member not complying with the code of 19
ethical conduct for members may be considered only by the 20
Assembly or the committee. 21
`(3) Subsection (2) has effect despite any other law, but the 22
subsection does not apply to a court, tribunal or other entity if 23
the entity may, under a law, consider an issue and the issue 24
that is considered involves the commission, or claimed or 25
suspected commission, of a criminal offence. 26
`(4) Subsection (3) does not limit or otherwise affect the powers, 27
rights and immunities of the Assembly and its committees and 28
members.'. 29
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 42]
Clause 42 Amendment of s 107 (Ministerial response to committee 1
report) 2
(1) Section 107(1)(a), `, other than the Scrutiny of Legislation 3
Committee,'-- 4
omit. 5
(2) Section 107(1)(b), `Members' Ethics and Parliamentary 6
Privileges Committee'-- 7
omit, insert-- 8
`Ethics Committee'. 9
(3) Section 107(10)-- 10
omit. 11
(4) Section 107(11) and (12)-- 12
renumber as section 107(10) and (11). 13
Clause 43 Amendment of s 112 (Additional salary entitlement of 14
some members) 15
(1) Section 112(1)(a), after 5th dot point-- 16
insert-- 17
`· the Manager of Opposition Business'. 18
(2) Section 112(1)(b), `the Minister who is recognised as the 19
deputy for the Premier'-- 20
omit, insert-- 21
`the Deputy Premier'. 22
(3) Section 112(7)-- 23
renumber as section 112(8). 24
(4) Section 112-- 25
insert-- 26
`(7) A reference in subsection (1)(a) to a member of a committee 27
includes, for the Committee of the Legislative Assembly, a 28
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 44]
member of the Assembly who is performing the role of a 1
member of the committee as an alternate under section 81.'. 2
Clause 44 Insertion of new ch 10, pt 5 3
Chapter 10-- 4
insert-- 5
`Part 5 Parliament of Queensland 6
(Reform and Modernisation) 7
Amendment Act 2011 8
`168 Definitions for pt 5 9
`In this part-- 10
commencement means the commencement of the provision in 11
which the term is used. 12
repealed, in relation to a section, means as in force before the 13
repeal of the section by the Parliament of Queensland 14
(Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Act 2011. 15
`169 Committee of the Legislative Assembly 16
`(1) The CLA is a committee to which section 112 applies. 17
`(2) A reference in section 112(1)(a) to a member of a committee 18
includes a member of the Assembly who is, as a nominee, 19
performing the role of a member of the CLA. 20
`(3) On the commencement of this subsection, the CLA continues 21
as the committee established under section 79A. 22
`(4) In this section-- 23
CLA means the committee appointed by a resolution of the 24
Assembly on 10 March 2011 to be known as the Committee 25
of the Legislative Assembly. 26
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 44]
`170 Initial membership of Ethics Committee 1
`(1) This section applies to each person who, immediately before 2
the commencement, was a member of the Integrity, Ethics and 3
Parliamentary Privileges Committee established under 4
repealed section 80. 5
`(2) The person continues as a member of the Ethics Committee 6
established under section 102 until the appointment of 7
members of the committee who have been nominated under 8
section 103. 9
`171 Continuation of Scrutiny of Legislation Committee for 10
transitional period 11
`(1) The scrutiny committee continues until the end of the 12
transitional period. 13
`(2) During the transitional period, the scrutiny committee 14
continues to have the area of responsibility that it had 15
immediately before the commencement under repealed 16
section 103, but only to the extent of-- 17
(a) considering the application of fundamental legislative 18
principles to-- 19
(i) Bills introduced into the Assembly before the 20
commencement; and 21
(ii) subordinate legislation made before the 22
commencement; and 23
(b) considering the lawfulness of subordinate legislation 24
made before the commencement; and 25
(c) continuing to conduct its current inquiries. 26
`(3) In this section-- 27
current inquiry means an inquiry of the scrutiny committee, 28
acting in its area of responsibility under repealed section 29
103(2), that the committee started before the commencement 30
but had not completed by the commencement. 31
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Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 44]
scrutiny committee means the committee that, immediately 1
before the commencement, was the Scrutiny of Legislation 2
Committee established under repealed section 80. 3
transitional period means the period from the commencement 4
until the end of the day on 30 June 2011. 5
`172 Material held by committees 6
`(1) A member of the Assembly who was a member of a 7
pre-reform committee may give to the Clerk any material held 8
by the committee immediately before the commencement. 9
`(2) The Clerk may make the material available to a statutory 10
committee to which the material is relevant. 11
`(3) In this section-- 12
pre-reform committee means a committee established under 13
repealed section 80. 14
`173 Additional salary of Manager of Opposition Business 15
`(1) Despite section 113(1), the amount of an additional salary of a 16
member who is the Manager of Opposition Business is the 17
amount fixed by the Governor in Council by gazette notice, as 18
varied under section 115. 19
`(2) The gazette notice under subsection (1) has retrospective 20
operation to 10 March 2011. 21
`174 Additional salary of committee chairpersons 22
`(1) The Governor in Council may, by gazette notice, fix an 23
amount of an additional salary to which a committee 24
chairperson is entitled to. 25
`(2) If an amount is fixed by gazette notice under subsection (1) 26
then, despite section 113(1), the amount of an additional 27
salary of a member who is the committee chairperson is the 28
amount fixed by the gazette notice, as varied under section 29
115. 30
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Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 45]
`(3) In this section-- 1
committee chairperson means the chairperson of a committee 2
to which section 112 applies. 3
`175 Transitional--waivers 4
`(1) This section applies to a waiver held by the Speaker that was 5
given to the Speaker under section 65(5) before the 6
commencement. 7
`(2) The Speaker must give the waiver to the registrar. 8
`(3) The registrar must, in accordance with the standing rules and 9
orders, include a copy of the waiver as part of the register of 10
members' interests.'. 11
Clause 45 Amendment of schedule (Dictionary) 12
(1) Schedule, definitions proposed national scheme legislation 13
and statutory committee-- 14
omit. 15
(2) Schedule-- 16
insert-- 17
`Deputy Leader of the Opposition means the member 18
recognised in the Assembly as the Deputy Leader of the 19
Opposition. 20
Deputy Premier means the Minister who is recognised as the 21
deputy for the Premier. 22
government company means a corporation incorporated 23
under the Corporations Act all the stock or shares in the 24
capital of which is or are beneficially owned by the State. 25
government entity means any of the following-- 26
(a) a government entity under the Public Service Act 2008, 27
section 24; 28
(b) a GOC; 29
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Part 3 Amendment of Parliament of Queensland Act 2001
[s 45]
(c) a government company; 1
(d) a statutory authority or other entity established under an 2
Act; 3
(e) an office established under an Act. 4
Leader of the House means the member recognised in the 5
Assembly as the Leader of the House. 6
Leader of the Opposition means the member recognised in 7
the Assembly as the Leader of the Opposition. 8
Manager of Opposition Business means the member 9
recognised in the Assembly as the Manager of Opposition 10
Business. 11
parliamentary service means the parliamentary service 12
established under the Parliamentary Service Act 1988. 13
portfolio area, of a portfolio committee, see section 88(2)(b). 14
portfolio committee means a committee established under 15
section 88. 16
statutory committee means any of the following 17
committees-- 18
(a) the Committee of the Legislative Assembly; 19
(b) a portfolio committee; 20
(c) the Ethics Committee.'. 21
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 46]
Part 4 Consequential and associated 1
amendments of other Acts 2
Division 1 Amendment of Auditor-General Act 3
2009 4
Clause 46 Act amended 5
This division amends the Auditor-General Act 2009. 6
Clause 47 Amendment of s 70 (Report of strategic review) 7
Section 70(7), `section 84(2)'-- 8
omit, insert-- 9
`section 92(2)'. 10
Clause 48 Amendment of schedule (Dictionary) 11
(1) Schedule, definition parliamentary committee-- 12
omit. 13
(2) Schedule-- 14
insert-- 15
`parliamentary committee means-- 16
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 17
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 18
committee under this Act--that committee; or 19
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 20
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 21
committee includes the auditor-general--that 22
committee; or 23
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 24
area includes the department, or the part of a 25
department, in which this Act is administered. 26
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 49]
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 1
schedule. 2
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 3
2001, schedule. 4
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 5
Act 2001, schedule.'. 6
Division 2 Amendment of Criminal 7
Organisation Act 2009 8
Clause 49 Act amended 9
This division amends the Criminal Organisation Act 2009. 10
Clause 50 Amendment of s 85 (Procedure before appointment as 11
COPIM) 12
Section 85(b), `Law, Justice and Safety Committee'-- 13
omit, insert-- 14
`parliamentary committee'. 15
Clause 51 Amendment of s 91 (Functions of Law, Justice and Safety 16
Committee) 17
Section 91 `Law, Justice and Safety Committee'-- 18
omit, insert-- 19
`parliamentary committee'. 20
Clause 52 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 21
(1) Schedule 2, definition Law, Justice and Safety Committee-- 22
omit. 23
(2) Schedule 2-- 24
insert-- 25
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 53]
`parliamentary committee means-- 1
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 2
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 3
committee under this Act--that committee; or 4
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 5
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 6
committee includes the COPIM--that committee; or 7
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 8
area includes the department, or the part of a 9
department, in which this Act is administered. 10
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 11
schedule. 12
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 13
2001, schedule. 14
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 15
Act 2001, schedule.'. 16
Division 3 Amendment of Electoral Act 1992 17
Clause 53 Act amended 18
This division amends the Electoral Act 1992. 19
Clause 54 Amendment of s 3 (Definitions) 20
(1) Section 3, definition parliamentary committee-- 21
omit. 22
(2) Section 3-- 23
insert-- 24
`parliamentary committee means-- 25
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 26
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 27
committee under this Act--that committee; or 28
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 55]
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 1
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 2
committee includes the Electoral Commission of 3
Queensland--that committee; or 4
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 5
area includes the department, or the part of a 6
department, in which this Act is administered. 7
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 8
schedule. 9
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 10
2001, schedule. 11
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 12
Act 2001, schedule.'. 13
Division 4 Amendment of Information Privacy 14
Act 2009 15
Clause 55 Act amended 16
This division amends the Information Privacy Act 2009. 17
Clause 56 Amendment of s 195 (Functions of parliamentary 18
committee) 19
Section 195, note-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 57 Amendment of sch 5 (Dictionary) 22
(1) Schedule 5, definition parliamentary committee-- 23
omit. 24
(2) Schedule 5-- 25
insert-- 26
`parliamentary committee means-- 27
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 58]
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 1
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 2
committee under this Act--that committee; or 3
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 4
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 5
committee includes the privacy commissioner--that 6
committee; or 7
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 8
area includes the department, or the part of a 9
department, in which this Act is administered. 10
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 11
schedule. 12
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 13
2001, schedule. 14
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 15
Act 2001, schedule.'. 16
Division 5 Amendment of Integrity Act 2009 17
Clause 58 Act amended 18
This division amends the Integrity Act 2009. 19
Clause 59 Amendment of s 88 (Report of strategic review) 20
Section 88(7), `section 84(2)'-- 21
omit, insert-- 22
`section 92(2)'. 23
Clause 60 Amendment of s 89 (Functions of parliamentary 24
committee) 25
Section 89, note-- 26
omit, insert-- 27
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 61]
`Note-- 1
The parliamentary committee may also have functions under other Acts. 2
For example, the committee may be a portfolio committee with 3
responsibilities that include other legislation.'. 4
Clause 61 Amendment of sch 2 (Dictionary) 5
(1) Schedule 2, definition parliamentary committee-- 6
omit. 7
(2) Schedule 2-- 8
insert-- 9
`parliamentary committee means-- 10
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 11
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 12
committee under this Act--that committee; or 13
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 14
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 15
committee includes the integrity commissioner--that 16
committee; or 17
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 18
area includes the department, or the part of a 19
department, in which this Act is administered. 20
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 21
schedule. 22
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 23
2001, schedule. 24
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 25
Act 2001, schedule.'. 26
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 62]
Division 6 Amendment of Ombudsman Act 1
2001 2
Clause 62 Act amended 3
This division amends the Ombudsman Act 2001. 4
Clause 63 Amendment of s 85 (Report of strategic review) 5
Section 85(7), `section 84(2)'-- 6
omit, insert-- 7
`section 92(2)'. 8
Clause 64 Amendment of s 89 (Functions) 9
Section 89, editor's note-- 10
omit. 11
Clause 65 Amendment of sch 3 (Dictionary) 12
(1) Schedule 3, definition parliamentary committee-- 13
omit. 14
(2) Schedule 3-- 15
insert-- 16
`parliamentary committee means-- 17
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 18
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 19
committee under this Act--that committee; or 20
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 21
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 22
committee includes the ombudsman--that committee; 23
or 24
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 66]
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 1
area includes the department, or the part of a 2
department, in which this Act is administered. 3
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 4
schedule. 5
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 6
2001, schedule. 7
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 8
Act 2001, schedule.'. 9
Division 7 Amendment of Right to Information 10
Act 2009 11
Clause 66 Act amended 12
This division amends the Right to Information Act 2009. 13
Clause 67 Amendment of s 188 (Report of strategic review) 14
Section 188(7), `section 84(2)'-- 15
omit, insert-- 16
`section 92(2)'. 17
Clause 68 Amendment of s 189 (Functions of parliamentary 18
committee) 19
Section 189, note-- 20
omit. 21
Clause 69 Amendment of sch 6 (Dictionary) 22
(1) Schedule 6, definition parliamentary committee-- 23
omit. 24
(2) Schedule 6-- 25
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Part 4 Consequential and associated amendments of other Acts
[s 69]
insert-- 1
`parliamentary committee means-- 2
(a) if the Legislative Assembly resolves that a particular 3
committee of the Assembly is to be the parliamentary 4
committee under this Act--that committee; or 5
(b) if paragraph (a) does not apply and the standing rules 6
and orders state that the portfolio area of a portfolio 7
committee includes the information commissioner--that 8
committee; or 9
(c) otherwise--the portfolio committee whose portfolio 10
area includes the department, or the part of a 11
department, in which this Act is administered. 12
portfolio area see the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001, 13
schedule. 14
portfolio committee see the Parliament of Queensland Act 15
2001, schedule. 16
standing rules and orders see the Parliament of Queensland 17
Act 2001, schedule.'. 18
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AMENDMENTS TO BILL
Parliament of Queensland (Reform and Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Parliament of Queensland (Reform and
Modernisation) Amendment Bill 2011
Amendments agreed to during Consideration
1 Clause 7 (Insertion of new ch 5, pt 1A)
Page 9, lines 17 to 19--
omit, insert--
`(c) each member has a vote on each question to be
decided.'.
2 Clause 23 (Amendment of s 78 (Main object of ch 5 and
its achievement))
Page 16, line 6, after `and'--
insert--
`alleged'.
3 Clause 41 (Insertion of new ch 5, pt 4)
Page 25, line 6, after `with'--
insert--
`alleged'.
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