Division
The majority voted in favour of keeping item 9 of schedule 2, and schedules 3 and 4, as amended, unchanged. The question was put after the Jacqui Lambie Network moved for those schedules to be opposed. ### What do these schedules do? According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd057): * *Item 9 of Schedule 1 amends the bill so that a person who has been convicted of a prescribed offence as defined in section 212 is not eligible to be a candidate for election to, or to hold an office in, an organisation under subsection 215(1).* * *Schedule 3 deals with the administration of dysfunctional registered organisations and* * *Schedule 4 proposes a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations.* ### What is the bill's main idea? The bill was [introduced in order to](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd057): * *include serious criminal offences punishable by five or more years’ imprisonment as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime which prohibits a person from acting as an official of a registered organisation* * *allow the Federal Court to disqualify officials from holding office where they have:* > * *contravened a range of industrial laws* > * *are found in contempt of court in relation to industrial laws or certain other circumstances* > * *repeatedly fail to stop their organisation from breaking the law or* > * *are otherwise not a fit and proper person to hold office in a registered organisation* * *make it an offence for a person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation once disqualified* * *allow the Federal Court to deregister an organisation (or make alternative orders) where there is:* > * *unlawful or otherwise improper conduct of the affairs of the organisation* > * *serious criminal offences committed by the organisation* >
Senate, 2019-11-28. affirmative: ayes 36, noes 32.
Question
The majority voted in favour of keeping item 9 of schedule 2, and schedules 3 and 4, as amended, unchanged. The question was put after the Jacqui Lambie Network moved for those schedules to be opposed. ### What do these schedules do? According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd057): * *Item 9 of Schedule 1 amends the bill so that a person who has been convicted of a prescribed offence as defined in section 212 is not eligible to be a candidate for election to, or to hold an office in, an organisation under subsection 215(1).* * *Schedule 3 deals with the administration of dysfunctional registered organisations and* * *Schedule 4 proposes a public interest test for amalgamations of registered organisations.* ### What is the bill's main idea? The bill was [introduced in order to](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd1920a/20bd057): * *include serious criminal offences punishable by five or more years’ imprisonment as a new category of ‘prescribed offence’ for the purposes of the automatic disqualification regime which prohibits a person from acting as an official of a registered organisation* * *allow the Federal Court to disqualify officials from holding office where they have:* > * *contravened a range of industrial laws* > * *are found in contempt of court in relation to industrial laws or certain other circumstances* > * *repeatedly fail to stop their organisation from breaking the law or* > * *are otherwise not a fit and proper person to hold office in a registered organisation* * *make it an offence for a person to continue to act as an official or in a way that influences the affairs of an organisation once disqualified* * *allow the Federal Court to deregister an organisation (or make alternative orders) where there is:* > * *unlawful or otherwise improper conduct of the affairs of the organisation* > * *serious criminal offences committed by the organisation* >
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