Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Cormann. Before I go to Senator Xenophon, I want to return to Senator Rhiannon's request. Is it the wish of the committee that the statements of reasons accompanying the requests be incorporated in Hansard immediately after the request to which they relate? There being no objection, it is so ordered.

The statement read as follows—

Trade Support Loans Bill 2014

(Amendments, and requests for amendments, to be moved by Senator Rhiannon, on behalf of the Australian Greens, in committee of the whole)

Statement pursuant to the order of

the Senate of 26 June 2000

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The amendment provides for an additional payment to be made to persons to whom trade support loan is paid.

On the basis that the additional payment will result in increased expenditure under the standing appropriation in clause 104 of the Bill, amendment (3) should be moved as a request.

Trade Support Loans Bill 2014

(Amendments, and requests for amendments, to be moved by Senator Rhiannon, on behalf of the Australian Greens, in committee of the whole)

Statement by the Clerk of the Senate pursuant

to the order of the Senate of 26 June 2000

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Amendment (3)

The Senate has long followed the practice that it should treat as requests amendments which would clearly, necessarily and directly result in increased expenditure under a standing appropriation.

If, as stated, this amendment would result in increased expenditure under the standing appropriation in clause 104 of the Bill, it is in accordance with the precedents of the Senate that this amendment be moved as a request.