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

It is cruel and unusual, Mr Chairman. Nevertheless, I move the amendment standing in my name:

(1) Schedule 1, item 21, page 47 (lines 1 to 8), omit section 211, substitute:

  211 Conditions to be met before public reporting

  (1) The Pricing Authority must not report publicly (whether on the internet or otherwise) unless:

     (a) if the report has been given to the Minister and each State/Territory Health Minister—a period of 30 days has elapsed since the report was so given; or

     (b) if the report has not been given to the Minister and each State/Territory Health Minister—a period of 3 months has elapsed since the report was completed.

  (2) If:

     (a) a report is given to the Minister and each State/Territory Health Minister under paragraph (1)(a); and

     (b) the report contains one or more recommendations; and

     (c) the Minister or a State/Territory Health Minister does not agree to adopt one or more of the recommendations;

the Minister or State/Territory Health Minister must publish on the internet his or her reasons for not adopting the recommendation or recommendations.

  (3) Subsection (1) does not apply in relation to a report under section 212.