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New South Wales and Victoria and disadvantage ACT employers in comparison with employers in these other jurisdictions. Following consultation, agreement for adopting this approach has also been reached with the Law Society of the ACT and the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants.
Madam Speaker, this Bill introduces amendments to the Act to maintain the current position that payroll tax is calculated on the actual value of the fringe benefit to the employee. It is proposed that the Bill take effect retrospectively from 1 April 1994, corresponding to the date of commencement of the amendments to the Commonwealth's FBT Act. I present the explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Kaine) adjourned.
AIR POLLUTION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (11.03): On behalf of my colleague Mr Wood, I present the Air Pollution (Amendment) Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MS FOLLETT: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, this Bill, which follows on amendments to the Air Pollution Act 1984 that were enacted in December 1993, meets the Government's commitment to the introduction of effective controls over emissions from solid fuel appliances, in response to relevant recommendations of the report of the ACT Legislative Assembly Standing Committee on Conservation, Heritage and the Environment entitled "Fuelwood Heating in the ACT". These recommendations related to the need for legislative controls over pollution from solid fuel appliances and the need for emission standards for new solid fuel appliances.
Amongst these amendments to the Air Pollution Act was the requirement that new solid fuel burning appliances cannot be sold unless a certificate of compliance with the emission standard has been issued in relation to the appliance model line. This certificate of compliance is to be issued by a person or body authorised for this purpose by the Pollution Control Authority. At the time of drafting of the amendment to introduce this requirement, it was anticipated that certificates of compliance would be issued by the organisations which were responsible for testing of the solid fuel burning equipment. The wording used in section 24A reflected this. Section 24A(3)(a) states that a certificate of compliance is to be issued by an authorised person or body who has tested an appliance.
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