Page 4440 - Week 14 - Thursday, 9 December 1993
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A.C.T. PUBLIC SERVICE - SELECT COMMITTEE
Alteration to Re
solution of Appointment
MR DE DOMENICO (11.15): Madam Speaker, I move:
That paragraph (5) of the resolution of the Assembly of 17 June 1993, establishing the Select Committee on the Establishment of an ACT Public Service, be amended by omitting "by before the commencement of the in principle debate on the Bill" and substituting "after the Minister has moved and spoken to the motion that this Bill be agreed to in principle and before the resumption of the debate on the motion;".
Madam Speaker, this motion is technical in nature and clarifies an inadvertent ambiguity in the motion which established the select committee on 17 June 1993. As members would know, the in-principle debate commences when a Bill is formally presented to the Assembly by the responsible Minister. At present the committee would be bound to report simultaneously, which to me is a wellnigh impossible procedural condition. The intent of the debate on 17 June as recorded in Hansard was that the Assembly should receive the committee's report by the time that the substantive debate on the separate service Bill was to commence. Normal procedure, under standing order 171, would mean that this would occur before the resumption of the in-principle debate and after the Minister has moved and spoken to the motion "That the Bill be agreed to in principle". On that basis I seek agreement to this technical amendment to clarify the committee's reporting date.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
SOCIAL POLICY - STANDING COMMITTEE
Reference - Men
tal Welfare Bill Exposure Draft and Crimes (Amendment) Bill Exposure Draft
MS ELLIS (11.17): Madam Speaker, I move:
That the resolution of the Assembly of 14 September 1993, referring the Exposure Drafts of the Mental Welfare and Crimes (Amendment) Bills, be amended by omitting "report by 16 December 1993" and substituting "report by the last sitting day of April 1994".
Madam Speaker, given the complexity of the issues that have been raised during the period of receipt of submissions by the committee, which, I might add, has since closed, and the public hearing process that the committee has undertaken, the committee has determined that a further extension of time for proper deliberation on this very complex matter will be required. Members will note that we have suggested a new reporting date of the last sitting day in April. If it is at all possible, we may seek to table something in the February sittings. I should imagine that we will have our report ready by the end of the sitting period in April.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
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