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Former Committees (59)
- Agriculture and Environment Committee
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- Education, Tourism, Innovation and Small Business Committee (formerly the Education, Tourism and Small Business Committee)
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- Health and Community Services Committee
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- Health and Environment Committee
- Health Quality and Complaints Commission Select Committee
- Health, Communities, Disability Services and Domestic and Family Violence Prevention Committee (formerly the Health and Ambulance Services Committee)
- Impact of Petrol Pricing Select Committee
- Industry, Education, Training and Industrial Relations Committee
- Infrastructure, Planning and Natural Resources Committee
- Innovation, Tourism Development and Environment Committee
- Investigation into Altruistic Surrogacy Committee
- Law, Justice and Safety Committee (formerly the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee)
- Legal Affairs and Community Safety Committee
- Legal Affairs and Safety Committee
- Legal Affairs, Police, Corrective Services and Emergency Services Committee
- Mental Health Select Committee
- Natural Resources, Agricultural Industry Development and Environment Committee
- Palm Island Select Committee
- Parliamentary Committee for Electoral and Administrative Review
- Public Accounts and Public Works Committee
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- Public Works and Utilities Committee (formerly the Transportation and Utilities Committee, also formerly the Utilities, Science and Innovation Committee)
- Public Works Committee
- Review of Organ and Tissue Donation Procedures Select Committee
- Scrutiny of Legislation Committee
- Select Committee on Ethics
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- Select Committee on the Consequences of Changing Political Status
- Social Development Committee
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- State Development, Tourism, Innovation and Manufacturing Committee
- Supermarket Pricing Select Committee
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Committee Secretariat Contact
George Street
BRISBANE QLD 4000
Email: committeeoffice@parliament.qld.gov.au
Committee Membership
Mr Andrew Cripps MP, Deputy Chair, Member for Hinchinbrook
Mr Jarrod Bliejie MP, Member for Kawana
Mr Steve Kilburn MP, Member for Chatsworth
Mr Ray Stevens MP, Member for Mermaid Beach
Mr Murray Watt MP, Member for Everton
Hon Dean Wells MP, Member for Murrumba Downs
Functions of the Committee
The information on this page relates to the committees of the 48th - 53rd Parliaments. This committee ceased to exist on 16 June 2011 by a motion in the House.
The Law, Justice and Safety Committee was a committee of the Queensland Parliament with a broad range of law reform responsibilities. The committee was established under the Parliament of Queensland Act 2001 (Qld). The committee was formerly the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee.
On 19 May 2009, the Parliament of Queensland Amendment Bill was approved in the House amending the Parliament of Queensland Act to establish the Law, Justice and Safety Committee as a standing committee replacing the Legal, Constitutional and Administrative Review Committee.
Areas of responsibility
- The Parliament of Queensland Act provides that the Committee has the following areas of responsibility:
- Administrative review reform, including considering legislation about access to information, review of administrative decisions, anti-discrimination and equal opportunity employment. (However, the committee's jurisdiction does not extend to investigating particular conduct, or reviewing a decision to, or not to, investigate a particular complaint or decision.)
- Constitutional reform, including any Bill expressly or impliedly repealing any law relevant to Queensland's Constitution.
- Electoral reform, including monitoring generally the conduct of elections under the Electoral Act 1992 and the capacity of the Electoral Commission to conduct elections.
- Legal reform, including recognition of Aboriginal tradition and Island custom under Queensland law and proposed national scheme legislation referred to the committee by the Legislative Assembly. (National scheme legislation refers to a Bill for an Act that is intended to be substantially uniform with or complementary to legislation of the Commonwealth or another State and whose operation may, under the Act, be changed by amendment of a law of the Commonwealth or another State.)
- An area regarding law, justice or safety that is referred to the committee by the Legislative Assembly.
The Committee had a number of other statutory responsibilities in relation to the Queensland Ombudsman, the Information Commissioner and senior officers of the Electoral Commission of Queensland. In addition, the Committee must "deal with" issues which are referred to the committee by the Legislative Assembly or under another Act, whether or not the issue is within the Committee's areas of responsibility.
By resolution of 23 April 2009, the Parliament established a select Committee for Law, Justice and Safety which has jurisdiction to monitor and report on issues in the policy areas of policing and public safety, emergency services, corrective services, justice and industrial relations.