Page 605 - Week 03 - Wednesday, 21 March 1990
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MR MOORE: It is entirely in his hands unless the Assembly finds the regulation unacceptable. That is exactly what he is objecting to, because he will then have to make a decision, and that is what he does not want to do. If he can possibly find a way to put off a decision he will, because he has not made any decisions since he has been in power. In more than 100 days no decisions whatsoever have been made and that is exactly how he is trying to keep the ball in play - "No-decision Collaery".
Question resolved in the negative.
BUSINESS LEASES REVIEW BILL 1990
MR WHALAN (11.15): I present the Business Leases Review Bill 1990. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
This Bill seeks to establish an Act of this Assembly which will regulate the relationship between lessors and lessees and provide a mechanism for resolving disputes between parties to a business lease. I would like to preface my remarks on this matter by outlining the commitment of the ACT Labor Party to legislation of this type.
During the election campaign leading up to the formation of the first Legislative Assembly of the ACT, the Australian Labor Party distributed many hundreds of copies of a circular to commercial tenants throughout the ACT. These included commercial tenants in both the retail industry and other types of commercial activity. It was not limited to that, and I would like to place on record very quickly the notes of that circular that we sent around to commercial tenants. It said:
Next Saturday you will vote for the first parliament to govern the ACT. We are going to election at a time of publicity about extreme rent increases and other impositions on commercial tenants. Normally we would not wish to intrude on the commercial relationship between business tenants and their landlords, but in the interests of the consumer and small business we believe it necessary to step in and make this relationship fairer and more equitable.
A Labor Government is committed to introducing legislation to protect commercial tenants. This will be known as the Business Leases Review Act. The terms of the legislation are based on discussions with groups such as the Shopping Centre Tenants Association. The Australian Labor Party has examined the report of the ACT working party on business leases review legislation. This matter was discussed at a recent meeting of the
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