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For this reason the Chief Minister - who was then the Leader of the Opposition - introduced the Water Supply (Chemical Treatment) Bill to allow fluoridation to be reintroduced until the matter had been fully investigated by the committee and the Assembly had received and responded to the report.
This legislation was passed on 18 October 1989 and acted to suspend part VIIIA of the earlier Electricity and Water Act which itself was passed on 27 September 1989 to prohibit the addition of fluoride to the water supply. The suspension applies only until 30 June 1990. A situation now exists that will result in fluoridation in the water supply ceasing from 30 June 1990 unless this Assembly further amends the legislation passed on 18 October last year.
The community has already made it clear that it feels strongly about the need for proper consideration of this issue prior to a final decision. Therefore, it would be irresponsible not to maintain fluoride in the water supply until we have had the opportunity to consider the committee's report, which can now be expected on or prior to 29 November 1990.
I therefore present this amendment to the Water Supply (Chemical Treatment) Act which extends the suspension of part VIIIA of the Electricity and Water Act until 28 February 1991. By this date, I would expect that the Assembly would have had the opportunity to fully debate and resolve the issue. Mr Speaker, I present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
ADJOURNMENT
Motion (by Mr Collaery) proposed:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Tourist Commissioners
MR MOORE (4.43): Mr Speaker, I would like to talk this evening on the matter of tourist commissioners. It has come to my attention that the Government is in the process of making decisions about appointing people as part-time tourist commissioners in the Australian Capital Territory. The process when people have been appointed to boards within Mr Humphries' portfolio has been to notify Assembly members of those people that he has decided he might well appoint. I have greatly appreciated that practice, and at this stage I do not think I have had any objection to the people on the list that he has presented each time that I have looked at it.
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