Personal Properties Securities Bills

Submitted by Louise Sales on Thu, 18/08/2011 - 15:20

Extract from Hansard
[COUNCIL — Thursday, 18 August 2011]
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Hon Simon O'Brien; Hon Kate Doust; Hon Adele Farina; Hon Liz Behjat; Hon Lynn MacLaren; Hon Ljiljanna
Ravlich; Hon Philip Gardiner

PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITIES (COMMONWEALTH LAWS) BILL 2011
PERSONAL PROPERTY SECURITIES (CONSEQUENTIAL REPEALS AND AMENDMENTS) BILL 2011

Cognate Debate — Motion

On motion by Hon Simon O’Brien (Minister for Commerce), resolved —
That leave be granted for Personal Property Securities (Commonwealth Laws) Bill 2011 and the
Personal Property Securities (Consequential Repeals and Amendments) Bill 2011 to be dealt with
cognately.

Second Reading — Cognate Debate

Resumed from 16 February.

HON LYNN MacLAREN (South Metropolitan) [11.57 am]: The Greens (WA) support the Personal Property
Securities (Commonwealth Laws) Bill and the Personal Property Securities (Consequential Repeals and
Amendments) Bill. I also express my appreciation for the minister’s work over the break and the amendments
that he has tabled. We share the concerns about state sovereignty that were articulated quite well by Hon Adele
Farina and Hon Liz Behjat.

As a party that does not have representation on the Standing Committee on Uniform Legislation and Statutes
Review, we rely most heavily on the reports about the uniform legislation that comes to this house. As I
previously stated in the debate on the Electronic Transactions Bill, when the reports give us very little to go on, it
is very difficult for us to carefully scrutinise the legislation before us. However, in this case I am appreciative of
the work that has been done and the issues highlighted. We reviewed the minister’s statement given on 9 August,
which flagged the two amendments that we will consider at the Committee of the Whole stage. Those
amendments clearly state, as we will see when we look at them carefully, that this Parliament will have a role
when these proposals come up. When the proclamations are made, they will have to be approved by each house
of Parliament. I flag that we will support those amendments to these pieces of uniform legislation.

With those brief comments, I will not take too much of the house’s time other than to say that the Greens support
the bill.