Scott Ryan (President) Share this | Hansard source

I'm going to make the ruling. If you wish to dissent from it, you can. The Clerk has agreed with me that 'put immediately' means put immediately; there's no other way to construe that term. I am putting the question because, when we move procedural motions, it is 'that the question be put'. They are the same words. It means 'that it be put to the Senate immediately'. If it didn't have the word 'immediately' there, then there would be an opportunity for debate. So I'm going to put that.

The question is that the Senate not insist on amendments (1) and (4), which the House has not agreed to, on the Water Legislation Amendment (Inspector-General of Water Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2021.