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MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (8.59), in reply: Mr Speaker, I thank members for their comments in relation to this Bill. This Bill does, as was said, make some sensible amendments which will affect ordinary citizens quite often as they seek perhaps to challenge decisions that have more effect on their daily lives than some of the more esoteric areas in which we provide mechanisms for administrative appeal. I am pleased that this Bill has the general support of the house and I wish it a speedy passage. Mr Collaery's comments about the future conduct of this area of the law and what needs to be done to take into account advice given by medical specialists are matters which I can assure him I will look at carefully.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
BUILDING (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1991
Debate resumed from 15 August 1991, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR DUBY (9.00): The Building Act of 1972 - the principal Act which regulates standards for the erection, alteration and occupancy of buildings within the ACT - is probably one of the most important Acts in force in the Territory. Over the years there have been many complaints from numbers of people about the way that the level of regulation and enforcement under that Act has interfered with the lives of ordinary citizens in the Territory. I am pleased to see that this Bill has been brought forward. As Mr Connolly noted in his introductory speech, it was originally brought forward by the Alliance Government and, being such a sensible Bill, it is being continued by the Follett Government.
As Mr Connolly said in his introductory speech, the building manual, which is the lexicon containing all the technical requirements under the principal Act, the Building Act of 1972, is to be replaced by a building code which comprises all the provisions of the Building Code of Australia, together with a special ACT appendix that applies to the specific requirements of the Territory. The Building Code of Australia has been prepared by the Australian Uniform Building Regulations Coordinating Council. AUBRCC is the in-house jargon for the council, which continually looks at the building codes and the
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