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South Australia
Parliamentary Committees (Petitions) Amendment
Bill 2019
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Parliamentary
Committees Act 1991
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Parliamentary
Committees Act 1991
3Amendment of section 12—Functions of
Committee
16BCertain petitions
referred to Legislative Review Committee
5Amendment of section 19—Reference of
Committee report to Minister for response
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Parliamentary Committees (Petitions)
Amendment Act 2019.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Parliamentary Committees
Act 1991
3—Amendment
of section 12—Functions of Committee
Section 12—after paragraph (b) insert:
(ba) to inquire into, consider and report on petitions referred to it
under section 16B;
After section 16A insert:
16B—Certain petitions referred to Legislative
Review Committee
(1) Each eligible petition is, on being presented to the House of Assembly
or the Legislative Council by a member of the relevant House, referred to the
Legislative Review Committee by force of this section.
(2) In this section—
eligible petition means a petition of not less than
10 000 signatures that complies with any relevant requirements of the
Standing Orders of the House in which it is presented or the Joint Standing
Orders (as the case may require).
5—Amendment
of section 19—Reference of Committee report to Minister for
response
(1) Section 19(1)—delete "On" and substitute:
Subject to subsection (1a), on
(2) Section 19—after subsection (1) insert:
(1a) In the case of a report relating to a petition referred to the
Legislative Review Committee under section 16B, the report is referred by
force of this section to the Minister with primary responsibility in the area to
which the petition relates for that Minister's response.
(3) Section 19(2)—delete "subsection (1)" and
substitute:
this section
(4) Section 19(3)—delete subsection (3) and
substitute:
(3) The following
provisions apply in relation to the response of a Minister to a Committee
report:
(a) in the case of a
response relating to a petition referred to the Legislative Review Committee
under section 16B—the prescribed Minister in each House must, within
6 sitting days after the response is made—
(i) address the House and explain what, if any, action is to be taken in
relation to the petition (whether by the prescribed Minister or otherwise);
and
(ii) if no action is to be taken in relation to the petition (whether by
the prescribed Minister or otherwise), the reasons for that fact;
(b) in any other case—the Minister must cause a copy of the response
to be laid before the Committee's appointing House or Houses within
6 sitting days after it is made.
(4) In this section—
prescribed Minister, in relation to a response referred to in
subsection (3)(a)
, means—
(a) in the House in which the Minister to whom the report of the
Legislative Review Committee is referred under subsection (1a)
sits—that Minister; or
(b) in the other House—the Premier or the leader of Government
business in the Legislative Council (as the case requires).