Nick Xenophon (SA, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

If I can make it absolutely clear, this is not a question of not taking the minister’s word; it was a technical procedural question as to whether there was any drafting impediment. I am grateful to the minister for clarifying that.

That leaves one final issue, one final obstacle or one final hurdle to this bill and it relates to the number of days for the Senate to consider this as a part of the undertaking of the minister. Is the minister in a position to undertake that eight sitting days would need to elapse before the regulations would come into force from the time they are tabled in the Senate?