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have to worry about being registered and have third party insurance. I do not think we are going to have any wheelchairs screaming down the street, so I do not think this is a problem.

Mr Jensen: I was not talking about that, Ellnor; you were not listening. I was not talking about third party.

MRS GRASSBY: So, they are not up for public liability.

Mr Jensen: I was talking about personal liability, Ellnor; you were not listening.

MRS GRASSBY: Well, they are not up for public liability. You see, it does not come under - - -

Mr Jensen: Personal liability, Ellnor.

MRS GRASSBY: I think you will find that it does not come under it because I am told it is the same as using your footpaths.

Mr Jensen: The same liability as you have for people tripping in your house, tripping over in your front hall.

MRS GRASSBY: I think that you will find that it does not come under that liability.

Mr Jensen: I would check it out, Ellnor.

MRS GRASSBY: Anyway, Mr Speaker, I commend the people for supporting this Bill and I thank the Assembly very much because I think it is important that we sort this out and get the Bill straightened up.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) BILL 1989

Debate resumed from 28 September 1989, on motion by Mrs Grassby:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MRS NOLAN (4.31): Again, Mr Speaker, the Liberal Party will not be disagreeing with this particular piece of legislation. Today, with the escalating costs of bicycle paths, they cannot remain exclusively for the use of cyclists. Both pedestrians and joggers use cycle paths. Sometimes the cycle path replaces a footpath, as in the


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