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MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (11.05), in reply: It gives me great pleasure to hear the general support that this legislation is receiving from all members of the Assembly and the acknowledged need for this Bill. I think the matters relating to this Bill have been adequately covered, in both my tabling statement and the comments of Mr Stefaniak, Mrs Nolan and Mrs Grassby.
I take this opportunity to refute the comments made by Mr Hedley Rowe, concerning this matter, in the Canberra Times in February. Our legislation will cover all institutions and premises in the ACT generating, transporting, storing or disposing of clinical wastes, and it will provide more than adequate protection for the workers involved in clinical waste disposal as well as the public as a whole.
We will be appointing an adequate number of inspectors for the important task of enforcing the Act. Two new inspector positions have been created and four other employees will be appointed as waste inspectors, giving a total of six field staff to enforce the Act in the ACT. Our proposals are consistent with initiatives already taken in other States, and all interested parties will be consulted in the development of the clinical waste manual and the implementation process for this legislation.
The Government is responding to the comments of the Standing Committee on the Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation, and is currently drafting two minor amendments to the Bill. These amendments will be finalised for the detail debate which I hope will occur this afternoon. I thank members of the Assembly for the support that they have given to this Bill, and I commend the Bill to the house.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail Stage
Clause 1 (Short title)
Question proposed:
That the clause be agreed to.
Debate (on motion by Mr Duby adjourned.
GUARDIANSHIP AND MANAGEMENT OF PROPERTY
Statement and Paper
Debate resumed from 15 February 1990, on motion by Mr Collaery:
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