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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.22): I move the Government amendment No. 29, which reads as follows:
29. Page 44, lines 31 to 33, proposed new paragraph 113(2)(a), omit the paragraph.
Again, this amendment is as a consequence of the removal of the party ticket voting scheme.
Amendment agreed to.
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.22): I move the Government amendment No. 30, as follows:
30. Page 47, lines 19 to 27, proposed new subsection 121(2), omit the subsection.
Madam Speaker, proposed new subsection 121(2) is to be omitted to give the Electoral Commission greater flexibility in approving means by which matters shall be determined by lot. As it stands, proposed new subsection 121(2) is an imperfect attempt to paraphrase the Commonwealth Electoral Act's lengthy and detailed double randomisation process whereby the Act specifies that a person is to be blindfolded and balls are to be rotated in a container. Rather than attempt to go into this detail in the ACT legislation, this amendment will give the commission the flexibility to approve an appropriate process without limiting the options of the commission. It is intended that some form of the double randomisation method be used when conducting the draw for positions on the ballot-papers. As the Government proposes to accept the Opposition's following amendment to make methods determined by the commission disallowable instruments, deletion of this more detailed requirement should not lead to any unacceptable methods being determined by the commission.
Amendment agreed to.
MR HUMPHRIES (10.24): Madam Speaker, I move amendment No. l, which has been circulated in my name and which reads as follows:
l. Page 47, line 27, proposed new section 121, add at the end the following subsection:
"(3) An instrument of approval under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.".
This amendment was foreshadowed by the Chief Minister. It provides, as she indicated, that the determination made by the commission as to how the balls are rotated, or how the donkey has a tail pinned to it, or whatever the process might be, is to be a disallowable instrument. The Assembly could resolve any potential conflict about whether the method
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