Chris Bowen (Prospect, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Minister for Human Services moving an amendment to the Health Insurance Amendment (Compliance) Bill 2009 during the consideration of the Senate’s message insisting upon its amendments to the bill.

Question agreed to.

I indicate to the House that the government proposes that the House insist on disagreeing to amendments Nos 1 and 10 disagreed to by the House and insisted on by the Senate and that an unrelated amendment be made to the bill. A motion to suspend so much of the standing and sessional orders as would prevent the unrelated amendment being moved has just been agreed to by the House. I suggest, therefore, that it may suit the convenience of the House to first consider Senate amendments Nos 1 and 10 and then the unrelated amendment which I will move.

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