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Finally, Mr Deputy Speaker, the Bill also provides for a number of amendments of a housekeeping nature. These remove sexist language and redundant provisions dealing with registration of interstate practitioners and personal attendance requirements, which will now be dealt with under the mutual recognition legislative framework. I present the explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mrs Carnell) adjourned.
INTOXICATED PERSONS (CARE AND PROTECTION) BILL 1994
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (11.26): Mr Deputy Speaker, I present the Intoxicated Persons (Care and Protection) Bill 1994.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
I seek leave to have my speech incorporated in Hansard.
Leave not granted.
MR CONNOLLY: Mr Deputy Speaker, today marks another step in the development of a comprehensive framework of care and support for those in the ACT community who experience problems related to their alcohol and other drug use. I am pleased to be able to provide a legislative basis for places where people can sober up when, due to intoxication from alcohol and/or other drugs, they have temporarily lost the capacity to care for their own safety.
There are two Bills in the package - the Intoxicated Persons (Care and Protection) Bill 1994, which I am introducing now, and the Intoxicated Persons (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1994, which I will also be introducing today. The recommendations to establish sobering-up places have been made a number of times, most recently in the report of the Select Committee on Drugs, Youth and Alcohol: A Rite of Passage?. That was a committee of this Assembly, Mr Stevenson. Many members of this Assembly spend a lot of time working on committees, rather than forcing Ministers to read speeches which other members would have given leave to have incorporated in Hansard. In its response to that report, the Government made a commitment to establish a sobering-up place.
This Government has a proud record of taking action to reduce harm related to the use of alcohol and other drugs, including the promotion of responsible serving of alcohol; educating children and young people about safe use of alcohol; discouraging under-age use of alcohol; and examining particular areas of concern, such as in Civic, through the establishment of the Community Safety Committee. The Government recently released
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