Consumer Protection

METROPOLITAN CEMETERIES BOARD — FUNERAL DIRECTORS — CODE OF CONDUCT

1069.  Hon ALISON XAMON to the Leader of the House representing the Minister for Local Government:

I refer to the ABC Four Corners report on the funeral industry aired on Monday, 23 September 2019, which detailed several appalling incidents of undignified practices in the funeral industry.

(1)  What oversight mechanisms are in place to ensure that the “Code of Conduct for Metropolitan Cemeteries Board Licenced Funeral Directors 2019/2020” is upheld?

CONSUMER PROTECTION LEGISLATION AMENDMENT BILL 2018

Committee

Resumed from an earlier stage of the sitting. The Deputy Chair of Committees (Hon Dr Steve Thomas) in the chair; Hon Alannah MacTiernan (Minister for Regional Development) in charge of the bill.

Comments and speeches from various members

Clause 67: Section 47 amended —

Hon ALANNAH MacTIERNAN: I move —

Page 39, line 8 — To delete “child,” and substitute — child or other vulnerable person,

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