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SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
MR BERRY (Manager of Government Business) (10.42): I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent orders of the day Nos 1 and 2, Executive business, relating to the Nature Conservation (Amendment) Bill 1994 and the exposure draft of the Nature Conservation (Amendment) Bill, being called on forthwith.
Members, this is a move which has been necessitated as a matter of convenience for the Minister. I understand that it has been raised with members and there is not any substantial objection to it.
Question resolved in the affirmative, with the concurrence of an absolute majority.
NATURE CONSERVATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
[COGNATE PAPER:
NATURE CONSERVATION LEGISLATION - EXPOSURE DRAFT]
Debate resumed from 16 June 1994, on motion by Mr Wood:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Nature Conservation (Amendment) Exposure Draft Bill? If there is no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that in debating order of the day No. 1 they may also address their remarks to order of the day No. 2.
MR STEFANIAK (10.43): The Nature Conservation (Amendment) Bill 1994 represents a long overdue strengthening of the Nature Conservation Act 1980 in relation to the protection of species and ecological communities and the proscription of threatening processes. This is vital in terms of ensuring the preservation of native ACT species that are currently threatened through habitat loss, urban encroachment, and feral plants and animals.
Madam Speaker, the main objective of the Bill is basically to provide for the identification and protection of native plant and animal species and ecological communities in the ACT whose survival in the wild is at risk. The Bill proposes to introduce a process for the assessment of the conservation status of those plant and animal species and ecological communities by an expert committee. Where that committee concludes that the conservation status of the species or community is threatened - that is, extinction is
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