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Again there are similar provisions in relevant New South Wales and Queensland legislation, and, together with changed provisions for the recording of qualifications for registration, the Act will be brought into line with legislation in other States. This follows the policy of the Department of Community Services and Health of having legislation in the Australian Capital Territory uniform with neighbour States where appropriate. I present the explanatory memorandum.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH AND SAFETY BILL 1989
Detail Stage
Consideration resumed from 24 October 1989.
Clause 1 agreed to.
Clause 2 (Commencement)
MR STEFANIAK (10.37): I move:
Page 1, line 10, omit "The", substitute "Subject to subsection (3), the".
I refer members to page 3 of the occupational health and safety committee report. In relation to the commencement clause, the committee, whilst recognising the need for the Executive to have the necessary time in which to put in place the appropriate arrangements to administer its legislation, was of the opinion that the Assembly ought to ensure that legislation it enacts comes into operation within a reasonable time after passage through the Assembly. The committee believed that a period of six months ought to be a reasonable time within which the Assembly could set in place any administrative arrangements necessary to give effect to the legislation.
As a result, the committee recommended to the Assembly that it adopt as a principle that, notwithstanding other commencement provisions in any piece of legislation, every Act passed by the Assembly should come into operation within, at the latest, six months after the Act was notified in the Gazette as having been passed by the Assembly. Accordingly, as a result of that, the committee recommended in its report that all Acts passed by the Assembly commence on a day not later than six months following the notification required by section 25 of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act 1988. That is recommendation 3 of the committee's report.
In a schedule attached to the report, the committee suggested an amendment to clause 2 of the Bill to give effect to that recommendation, and that effect initially in
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