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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 1991
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"THE INCREASE IN THE ANNUAL LICENCE FEES FOR VANS NOT EXCEEDING 1.9 TONNES IN WEIGHT AND VANS WEIGHING MORE THAN 1.9 TONNES IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PROPOSED RESTRUCTURING OF THE REGISTRATION TAX ON GOODS VEHICLES IN THE MOTOR VEHICLES REGISTRATION TAX) (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991."
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SIR PIERS POINTED OUT THAT THE ESTIMATED ADDITIONAL REVENUE FROM THESE MEASURES WAS $492 MILLION IN THE CURRENT FINANCIAL YEAR AND THERE WERE NO STAFFING IMPLICATIONS.
DEBATE ON THE BILL WAS ADJOURNED.
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CRIMES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991 INTRODUCED
A BILL WHICH GIVES EFFECT TO A MOTION ON DECRIMINALISATION OF PRIVATE HOMOSEXUAL ACTS BY CONSENTING ADULT MALES APPROVED BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IN JULY LAST YEAR WAS INTRODUCED INTO THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL TODAY (WEDNESDAY).
MOVING THE SECOND READING OF THE CRIMES (AMENDMENT} BILL 1991, THE SECRETARY FOR SECURITY, THE HON ALISTAIR ASPREY, SAID THE PROVISIONS OF THE BILL FOLLOWED CLOSELY THE MAIN RECOMMENDATIONS OF. THE 1983 LAW REFORM COMMISSION REPORT ON LAWS GOVERNING HOMOSEXUAL CONDUCT.
HE SAID THE ESSENTIAL PURPOSES OF THE BILL WERE TO DECRIMINALISE CONSENSUAL. HOMOSEXUAL. ACTS COMMITTED IN PRIVATE BY ADULT MALES; BUT, AT THE SAME TIME, TO SAFEGUARD STANDARDS OF PUBLIC DECENCY; AND TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SAFEGUARDS AGAINST THE SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND CORRUPTION OF OTHERS, PARTICULARLY THE YOUNG AND THOSE WHO WERE OTHERWISE VULNERABLE.
THE MOTION ON DECRIMINALISATION OF PRIVATE HOMOSEXUAL ACTS BY CONSENTING ADULT MALES WHICH WAS PASSED LAST YEAR PROVIDED THAT MEASURES BE TAKEN TO REMOVE THE CRIMINAL PENALTIES RELATING ΤΟ HOMOSEXUAL ACTS COMMITTED IN PRIVATE BY CONSENTING MEN WHO HAD REACHED THE AGE OF 21; AND ΤΟ EXTEND ΤΟ MEN AND BOYS WHERE APPROPRIATE THE PROTECTION FROM SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AFFORDED TO WOMEN AND GIRLS.
MR ASPREY POINTED OUT THAT' DECRIMINALISATION OF HOMOSEXUAL ACTS PER SE WAS EFFECTED BY CLAUSE 26, WHICH WOULD REPEAL SECTIONS 49 TO 53 OF THE OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON ORDINANCE, AND BY CLAUSE 3 WHICH WOULD ABOLISH THE COMMON LAW OFFENCE OF BUGGERY.
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HE ADDED THAT CLAUSE 3 WOULD ALSO ADD NEW SECTIONS ΤΟ THE CRIMES ORDINANCE DEFINING THE CIRCUMSTANCES IN WHICH A HOMOSEXUAL WOULD REMAIN A CRIMINAL OFFENCE,
THESE CIRCUMSTANCES WERE:
WHERE THE ACT WAS NON-CONSENSUAL;
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