Page 1949 - Week 07 - Wednesday, 15 June 1994

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Mr Moore: On a point of order: I think you are referring to the amendment to clause 6. At the moment I am dealing with the amendment to clause 4.

MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you; I will come back to that in a moment. I thank Mr Moore for his point of order. I still make the comment that we need to keep under review the question of which appointments are subject to this legislation and which are not. At the end of the day, some appointments might appear to be inappropriately covered by this process. If that is the case, we should agree, by consensus hopefully, to exclude them from the process.

MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (11.33): Madam Speaker, to respond to Mr Humphries's comments, I advise members that, following the passage of the legislation today, I will be pleased to revise the schedule of appointments to which the Bill applies and circulate that again to members. It may be the wish of the Assembly to make that a formal part of the Act in due course. However, I will certainly revise the schedule and circulate it so that members are able to see whether there are positions that are on it that they believe ought not to be or positions that they would still like to see included, perhaps by way of later amendment.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR MOORE (11.34): I move:

Clause 6, page 2, lines 17 to 20, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:

Exemptions

"6. Sections 4 and 5 do not apply in relation to -

(a) an appointment of a public servant to a statutory office (whether or not the Act by or under which the appointment is made requires that the appointee be a public servant);

(b) an appointment of a person to act in a statutory office for a period not exceeding 6 months, not being an appointment of the person to act in the office for a second or subsequent consecutive period; or

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