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The whole community benefits from safer and better motor vehicles. Drivers, passengers, cyclists and pedestrians benefit from a reduced risk of death and injury. Vehicle owners benefit, and taxpayers benefit from lower insurance premiums and also reduced social security costs. Vehicle manufacturers and importers benefit from having guidance as to the standards they have to comply with, and from knowing that their competitors cannot steal a cost or profit advantage from cutting corners during manufacture. Householders benefit from a cleaner and quieter environment.
For those reasons the Australian Design Rules are vital, and the ability to enforce them by law is essential. Accordingly, I commend this Bill to the Assembly.
MR DUBY (Minister for Finance and Urban Services) (11.34), in reply: Mr Speaker, I am very pleased at the generous support given by the Assembly, as a whole, to this Bill to amend the Motor Traffic Act 1936, to make the vehicles registered in the ACT conform with the Australian Design Rules. The Bill ensures that the design rules may be legally enforced when registering a motor vehicle or trailer and will ensure that our vehicles will continue to meet the high standards of vehicle safety required under the ADRs. It will also assist in maintaining a healthy environment through the strict standards imposed on vehicle manufacturers in relation to vehicle emissions. Once again, I thank members of the Assembly for their support.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
MOTOR TRAFFIC (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 4) 1990
Debate resumed from 20 September 1990, on motion by Mr Duby:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MRS GRASSBY (11.35): Seeing that we are agreeing to this Bill, I would hope that this will be the only speech and that the Minister will very quickly bring the debate to an end. If the Government does not have any work, that is the Government's fault. It should have work. Looking at the notice paper today, I felt that after question time we could all go home because there was nothing here; but, obviously, they are all going to speak - the whole lot of them - on every one of these Bills. Of the four amendments
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