Page 168 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 14 February 1990

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I am not commenting on the virtue of the matter. I am simply saying that the National Capital Plan, where it moves into the transport arrangements for this Territory and talks about corridor planning and certain roadways and matters which impact on our residential areas and our business communities, clearly exceeds, on the advice available to me, the notion of national significance in the Act and may well be ultra vires the legislation.

Finally, in the few moments available to me I will mention that the further advice available, in which I believe members would be interested, is that in the event of a Federal election period coming at the transition period of 11 May, we face a difficult hiatus in planning in the Territory. This will require a resolution of differing arguments about whether the Governor-General may bring in the National Capital Plan without there having been the certification of that plan - in a view available to me, there must be a certified draft plan at least - and, additionally, the plan is supposed to be put through by the Governor-General within the transition year by 11 May. So there are urgent and important aspects to resolve, which really means that we should have got into this act earlier; we should have resolved a number of these vital concerns earlier in the life of self-government.

MR SPEAKER: It being past 5.00 pm, in accordance with amended standing order 34, the Assembly stands adjourned until Thursday, 15 February 1990 at 10.30 am.

Assembly adjourned at 5.02 pm

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