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MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: No, I want you to withdraw the statement in relation to their not telling the truth in the future, Mr Stevenson. Will you withdraw that? If you want to rephrase it I will let you do that, but I want you to withdraw that statement.
MR STEVENSON: I do so.
MR DEPUTY SPEAKER: Thank you.
MR STEVENSON: The rephrasing of the statement means that the statement was not true, and I think it is unfortunate that it has not been withdrawn.
PAPER
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts): Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to present an out-of-order petition.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Mr Deputy Speaker, I present an out-of-order petition from 683 residents, clients and users, asking that Weston Creek Health Centre not be closed.
ADMINISTRATION AND PROCEDURES - STANDING COMMITTEE
Standing Orders 200 and 201 and their Application - Interim Report
MR PROWSE (4.06): Mr Deputy Speaker, as chairman of the Administration and Procedures Committee, I present the following interim report:
Administration and Procedures - Standing Committee - Standing Orders 200 and 201 and their interpretation - Interim report, dated 12 December 1990.
I move:
That the report be agreed to.
The interim report that I have just tabled deals specifically with a request by the Administration and Procedures Committee to the Chief Minister, asking that he seek the opinion of the Commonwealth Attorney-General as to whether the effect of section 65 of the self-government Act is the same as section 56 of the Commonwealth Constitution, and whether the matter is justiciable.
Members may recall that two major legal opinions on the operation of section 65 of the self-government Act have been published. The opinions differ significantly, and it
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