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45 Health Insurance REgulations (Amedment) (Statutory Rules 1985 No. 290) disallowed by the Senate on 15 April 1986.
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46 Regrettably the maximum possible custodial penalty is not the subject of evaluation by Australian authorities.
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59 Quoted by Brennan, F G, in ‘Where Now’, 49 Australian law Journal, p.672 at p.677
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73 op. cit.
74 op. cit., pp.338-9
75 75. Seventy-ninth Report, Parliamentary paper No. 170/1986
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77 Seventy-seventh Report, Parliamentary paper No. 172/1986, para. 114, p.51
78 See Sente Hansard, 5 December 1985, p.3073
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