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BANKRUPTCY (AMENDMENT)(NO. 2) BILL 1985

Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to.

MEDICAL REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1985

The Secretary for Health and Welfare addressed the Committee and moved an amendment to clause 1 and the clause, as amended, was agreed to.

Clause 2 was agreed to.

Council then resumed.

THIRD READING OF BILLS

The Attorney General reported that:

the INSURANCE COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1985 the COMPANIES (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1985 and the BANKRUPTCY (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1985

had passed through Committee without amendment and.

the ARBITRATION (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) BILL 1985 the EMPLOYMENT (AMENDMENT) BILL 1985 and

the MEDICAL REGISTRATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1985

had passed through Committee with amendments. reading of each of the six bills.

Question put on the bills and agreed to.

Bills read the third time and passed.

He moved the third

The President suspended the sitting of the Council at 4.00 p.m.

Council resumed at 4.20 p.m.

ADJOURNMENT

The Attorney General moved the adjournment.

4.20 p.m.

His Excellency the President announced that in view of the fact that twenty-one Members had given notice of their intention to speak, he would on that occasion exercise his discretion under Standing Orders 9(7) and 9(8) to allow those Members such time as was necessary to complete their speeches, and such time as was then necessary for the Official Members to reply to those speeches, before putting the question on the adjournment.