Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move the opposition amendment circulated in my name:

(1) Schedule 1, item 1, page 3 (lines 4 and 5), omit the item, substitute:

1 Section 34ZZ

Repeal the section, substitute:

34ZZ Cessation of effect of Division

(1) This Division (apart from Subdivision C of this Division) ceases to have effect on 7 December 2019.

(2) Subdivision C of this Division ceases to have effect on 7 September 2019.

It's a very simple amendment. The effect of it would be to extend the sunset date for the questioning warrant power until 7 December 2019 and to retain the existing sunset date for the questioning and detention warrant power of 7 September 2019. That's the power that's never been used.

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the amendment moved by the member for Isaacs be agreed to.