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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 6 Hansard (23 May) . . Page.. 1690 ..

MR SPEAKER (continuing):

Immediately following the oral answer to a question, one supplementary question may be asked by the Member who asked the original question: Provided that the supplementary question is relevant to the original question or arises out of an answer given, ...

I will pause there. The standing orders do not stipulate that a supplementary question can arise only out of the answer given, although this is generally the practice, but provide that it can also be asked if relevant to the original question. Clearly, where a Minister has not been able to answer the original question, a supplementary question still can be asked. Standing order 119 further states:

... Provided that the supplementary question ... contains no preamble, introduces no new matter and is put in precise and direct terms.

It was my opinion that Ms Tucker's supplementary question did in fact introduce new matter; hence my ruling.

MR SPEAKER: I present, for the information of members, Auditor-General's Report No. 5 of 1996, entitled "Management of Former Sheep Dip Sites".

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (3.31): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move a motion authorising the publication of the Auditor-General's report.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: I move:

That the Assembly authorises the publication of Auditor-General's Report No. 5 of 1996.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

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