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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 11 Hansard (25 September) . . Page.. 3352 ..

MR SPEAKER: I am advised, Mr Humphries, that if Ms Horodny moves her amendment now you will need to seek leave to move yours because it precedes the matter that Ms Horodny is adding. Do you wish to move your amendment now, Mr Humphries?

Mr Humphries: Yes.

MR SPEAKER: Please do.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (11.53): Mr Speaker, mine is a very simple amendment. I would suggest to members that to say that the Government should put every proposed new use of the lakes before the Assembly could be a very onerous burden.

Mr Berry: Mr Speaker, has the amendment been moved yet?

MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries is moving his amendment now.

Mr Berry: He has not moved it yet?

MR HUMPHRIES: I can speak to it and then move it.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed, Mr Humphries.

MR HUMPHRIES: You have taken up some of my time with that point of order, Mr Berry. I am very upset about that.

MR SPEAKER: Order!

MR HUMPHRIES: I might just sit down and not say any more. All right, I will go on, Mr Speaker. To make Mr Berry happy, I move:

Insert "significant" before "proposed use".

Mr Berry: On a point of order, Mr Speaker: I refer you to standing order 140:

Every amendment must be relevant to the question which it is proposed to amend.

I draw your attention to your most recent ruling in relation to relevance. Mr Humphries seeks to exclude certain matters from the motion of Mr Moore, which reads as follows:

That this Assembly require the Government to put before it any proposed use of Lake Burley Griffin, Lake Tuggeranong or Lake Ginninderra or their foreshores prior to granting any permission for a new use of these areas for any purpose.

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