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The Business Franchise (Tobacco and Petroleum Products) (Amendment) Bill proposes to modify the present diesel fuel exemption scheme by making diesel fuel used for home heating and other off-road purposes subject to franchise fees, and to redirect the concessions, specifically for home heating, to pensioners and beneficiaries in order to properly target disadvantaged groups such as the unemployed and low income families. I commend the Bill to the Assembly, Madam Speaker, and I present an explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Cornwell) adjourned.
AGRICULTURAL AND VETERINARY CHEMICALS - NATIONAL REGISTRATION SCHEME
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.54): Madam Speaker, I move:
That the Legislative Assembly -
(1) Notes that -
(a) At the October 1990 Special Premiers' Conference, Heads of Government identified the need for there to be a national registration scheme for agricultural and veterinary chemicals to replace the existing eight State and Territory registration authorities. Such a scheme would encapsulate all evaluation and registration matters up to the point of retail sale, with the States and Territories retaining responsibility for post-retail control-of-use matters. The States and Territories would also undertake surveillance and compliance activities on behalf of the Commonwealth on an agency basis;
(b) The Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992 established a National Registration Authority to oversee the Commonwealth's role in the proposed National Registration Scheme;
(c) To give effect to the arrangements envisaged under the Scheme, it was also agreed that the Commonwealth would pass additional legislation which would define the powers and duties of the Authority in relation to the States and Territories. Adoption of such legislation by all jurisdictions would then formally establish the National Scheme;
(d) The Commonwealth Government has sought the consent of the ACT Legislative Assembly to allow it to use its section 122 powers under the Constitution to pass the Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1993 which would make law for the ACT in respect of agricultural and veterinary chemicals registration and evaluation matters. The adoption of this legislation by other jurisdictions would then enact the uniform national scheme; and
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