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SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
Papers
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister): Pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, I present the following subordinate legislation in accordance with the schedule of gazettal notices for determinations, declarations and regulations:
Co-operative Societies Act - Co-operative Societies Regulations (Amendment) - No. 19 of 1991 (S90, dated 10 September 1991).
Housing Assistance Act - Crisis Accommodation Housing Assistance Program - No. 78 of 1991 (S88, dated 5 September 1991).
Landlord and Tenant Act - Landlord and Tenant Regulations - No. 18 of 1991 (S86, dated 26 August 1991).
Nature Conservation Act - Declaration (S85, dated 28 August 1991).
Radiation Act - Determination of fees - No. 77 of 1991 (S87, dated 27 August 1991).
MINISTERIAL COUNCIL FOR CORPORATIONS
Ministerial Statement
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (3.34): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to make a ministerial statement on the ACT status at the Ministerial Council for Corporations.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: I really would have preferred to make a ministerial statement on single member electorates, but I will be restrained on this occasion. Mr Speaker, I would like to take this opportunity to inform the Legislative Assembly about a change in the status which is accorded to the ACT by the Ministerial Council for Corporations, or MINCO, as it is commonly known.
Until recently the ACT was accorded observer status only at this ministerial council. We were not permitted to see MINCO papers in advance of the meetings, ACT officers could not participate in officers meetings, and most importantly the ACT had no right to speak on corporations law issues which affected ACT residents. This has now changed. Negotiations with the Commonwealth on this issue were initiated by the Chief Minister in her first term, and were pursued by my predecessor, Mr Collaery, with bipartisan support from the Labor Party. As a consequence of those negotiations the Commonwealth Attorney-General, the Hon. Michael Duffy, wrote to Mr Collaery on 28 May this year to advise that MINCO Ministers had agreed that the ACT should, in future, be accorded non-voting observer status, but with full speaking rights, access to MINCO papers, and the right to be represented at MINCO officers meetings.
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