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Clause 3(15) of the existing Agreement provides for Loan Council's decisions to be "final and binding on all parties to this Agreement". However, clause 3(15) will be rescinded by the new Agreement. The Commonwealth agrees that, under the new Agreement, Loan Council resolutions will not be legally binding on the parties and that the wording of the new Agreement is intended to express that legal and policy position.
Mr Kaine: I think that clarifies my mind, Madam Speaker. Thank you very much.
MS FOLLETT: That is about as clear as it is going to get, I am afraid, Mr Kaine.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
SUBORDINATE LAWS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
Debate resumed from 3 March 1994, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR HUMPHRIES (4.27): This is a fairly simple Bill which makes three small changes to the Subordinate Laws Act, and I want to comment briefly on each of those three changes. The first change is that there is to be included in the Subordinate Laws Act an interpretive section so that we are able to read into every other piece of legislation which contains a regulation making power certain assumptions - that is, that the regulations are made for, or can be made for, the purposes that are required or permitted by the Act or that are necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or giving effect to the Act. I suppose that that will save a little bit of ink, and possibly some paper and a few trees over the years, so it is to be welcomed.
The second provision is an interesting one to me. It talks about there no longer being a need to publish the full determinations of fees and charges or disallowable instruments in the Gazette. Instead, it is sufficient to have that little table that we often see in the Gazette showing the names of particular pieces of legislation. In this case it will show delegated legislation which has been made and the date on which it has been made. This will also be a regime to reduce the amount of ink and paper that we are using for the purposes of making these regulations.
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