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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4921 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.46): Mr Speaker, my advice is that paragraph one of section 216A(2), which is what this amendment deals with, is the provision about tabling unrecommended leases. Those unrecommended leases were produced under section 165 of the Land Act, which is being repealed by this Bill. Since it is being repealed, the provision has no operation. Indeed, if you look at subsection (4) of section 216A, you will see:

"unrecommended lease" means a lease in respect of which the Executive has been advised under subsection 165(3) ...

Mr Moore: I am trying to read this. Would you slow down a bit and give it to me again. It says in this section that "quarter" means a period of three months. Would you just check that you are - - -

MR HUMPHRIES: The next definition, over the page, says:

"unrecommended lease" means a lease in respect of which the Executive has been advised under subsection 165(3) that the Authority considers that the lease could not appropriately be granted.

We have already, earlier in this Bill, repealed section 165. Therefore, an unrecommended lease does not exist anymore and, therefore, this amendment should be carried.

MR MOORE (11.48): Mr Speaker, I take the Minister's point on this and put it down, in part, to the amount of time we have had to consider this legislation. I have not followed that one through appropriately.

Clause agreed to.

Clause 51

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.49): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 22, line 19, paragraph (d), proposed definition of "development", after paragraph (b) of the proposed definition insert the following paragraphs:

"(ba) the carrying out of work that would affect the landscape of the land except where the land is leased for residential purposes only and is not specified in the Heritage Places Register, or an Interim Heritage Places Register, as a heritage place;

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