Mary Henry (Independent)

I move amendment No. 19:

In page 51, line 40, to delete "may" and substitute "shall be entitled".

I propose this amendment because of the large number of people here who may refuse to allow people to look through registers which might be important to them. I know the Minister and Senator Mansergh said that the word "may" will be taken in law as meaning "must". We can compare this with section 35 which uses the phrase "shall be entitled to search". Those who have charge of the registers have a great deal of power. I fear that if we do not include the words "shall be entitled to", we will end up with people being officious and denying others the right to make searches. It is not a big issue to ask for the words "shall be entitled to" to be included.