Amendments Nos. 117 to 119, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together, by agreement.
SECTION 103.
I move amendment No. 117:
In page 83, between lines 19 and 20, to insert the following subsection:
"(4) Except with the consent of the Minister, the Registrar may not serve a notice under subsection (3) after the expiry of three months from the date on which he receives the document to which the notice relates.”.
The league proposed that a time limit of three months be inserted in sections 103 and 104 which deal with the delivery of documents to the Registrar. Section 103(3) indicates that if a document is delivered to the Registrar which does not comply with certain specified requirements he may serve on the person concerned a notice indicating the respect in which the document does not comply. The purpose of my amendment is to indicate that the Registrar must serve such a notice within three months of receiving the document. If the Registrar does not act within the three month period he will require the consent of the Minister to serve the required notice. A similar change is being inserted in section 104 through amendment No. 118 and the proposed change in amendment No. 119 is a consequential one designed to clarify that the notice referred to is that under subsection (5).
Following legal advice I was unable to accept a series of amendments from the Opposition on section 8. Happily this is a situation where I can impose time limits on the actions of the Registrar and I know my colleagues in the Opposition will welcome this.
Amendment agreed to.
Section 103, as amended, agreed to.