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legislation. The house will recall that the purpose of this was to provide for deemed disallowance of regulations and to bring the provisions of this house into line with those of the Federal Parliament.
The Attorney-General kindly offered the assistance of the parliamentary counsel to look again at this legislation and to look at any improvements that could be made. I have spoken with Mr Hunt QC on this matter. He has made some minor changes to the substance of what was proposed, but proposed as well some additional refinements which will tidy up some aspects of the Subordinate Laws Act as it now stands. As a result of amendments over the years there is some confusion in language.
It will also add some additional protection found in the Federal legislation that deals with the situation where a motion has been moved to disallow regulations but the house comes to the end of its life. It preserves the motion hanging over those regulations. It will be a better Bill, and the drafting of that better Bill is now fairly well advanced and I would hope that next week we will be in a position to proceed with it.
I thank the Attorney for the cooperation that has been offered on this. I think the result of this process of delaying it a week will be that the ACT will not just be on a par with the Federal Parliament, but in some respects will have the best legislation in the country dealing with the supremacy of the parliament over the executive in relation to subordinate legislation.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS MANAGEMENT
Debate resumed from 13 February 1991, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the Alliance Government has demonstrated its inability to provide competent industrial relations management in the ACT.
MR HUMPHRIES (Minister for Health, Education and the Arts) (10.42): Mr Speaker, I will make a few comments on this matter. Mr Berry's comments on this matter on the last day on which we debated it were typical of the inflammatory sorts of comments that Mr Berry has made about the Alliance Government. He made some more this morning on the radio. He is very good at whipping up a theatrical appearance of crisis, of dire circumstances facing the Territory, of chaos and other disasters befalling the Territory; but I think that the facts of the matter are very different to those as portrayed by Mr Berry and his colleagues opposite. I was particularly intrigued by the fulminations concerning lost days due to industrial action in various areas of the
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