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1999
THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF
AUSTRALIA
THE SENATE
YEAR 2000 INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
BILL 1999
SUPPLEMENTARY EXPLANATORY
MEMORANDUM
Amendments to be moved on behalf of the
Government
The amendments make minor amendments to the Bill to permit a
republished Year 2000 disclosure statement to be made orally in certain
circumstances.
Amendment (1) includes a new definition of
‘electronic communication of speech’ for the purposes of Amendments
(3) and (4). Examples of a republished Year 2000 disclosure statement made by
way of an electronic communication of speech will include the recital or reading
aloud of the whole of an original Year 2000 disclosure statement over the
telephone or in a radio broadcast.
Amendment (2) amends paragraph
9(a) of the Bill to enable a republished Year 2000 disclosure statement to
include the recital or reading aloud of the whole of an original Year 2000
disclosure statement. Paragraph 9(b) of the Bill, which remains unchanged, will
require the recital or reading aloud to occur after the commencement of clause 9
and before 1 July 2001.
Amendment (3) amends paragraph 9(c) of the
Bill to enable a republished Year 2000 disclosure statement to be made orally or
by way of an electronic communication of speech.
Amendment (4)
amends paragraph 12(1)(g) of the Bill to expand the constitutional underpinning
of clause 10 of the Bill. Clause 10 sets out the general protection from civil
action. The effect of Amendment (4) is that the rules in clause 10 will apply
to a person where a republished Year 2000 disclosure statement is made by way of
an electronic communication of speech.
(Circulated by authority of Senator the Hon. Richard
Alston, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the
Arts)
ISBN: 0642 39007X