Skip to main content
Home
  • The Legislative Assembly meets on 16/04/2024 (01:00 PM)
    Assembly sit 16/04/2024
  • The Legislative Council meets on 16/04/2024 (01:00 PM)
    Council sit 16/04/2024
  • The Public Administration meets on 08/04/2024 (10:00 AM)
    Committee meet 08/04/2024

Parliamentary Questions


Question Without Notice No. 316 asked in the Legislative Council on 17 June 2021 by Hon Martin Aldridge

Parliament: 41 Session: 1

PUBLIC HEALTH AMENDMENT (SAFE ACCESS ZONES) BILL 2021

316. Hon MARTIN ALDRIDGE to the minister representing the Minister for Health:

I refer to the Public Health Amendment (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2021.

(1) How does the bill differ from that which was introduced into the Legislative Assembly on 14 October 2020?

(2) What consultation has taken place on the bill with relevant stakeholders since the bill was first introduced in October 2020 to date?

Hon STEPHEN DAWSON replied:

I thank the honourable member for some notice of the question.

(1) Besides a few editorial changes, only one minor change was made to the previous bill that was introduced into the Legislative Assembly last year—the removal of proposed section 306C, ''Laying reports before House of Parliament not sitting''. It was a procedural provision not related to the substantial safe access zones provisions that required the minister to send their report on the review of the bill—prepared after its fifth anniversary—to the Clerk of the House, if, in the minister's opinion, a house of Parliament will not sit during the period of 21 days after finalisation of the report. That provision was originally added to the previous bill at the request of the Parliamentary Counsel's Office.

(2) Following the consultation report Safe access zones—A proposal for reform in Western Australia published last year, updated information was sought from the two main WA abortion clinics, Marie Stopes and Nanyara Medical Group, and WA Police Force.