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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 7 Hansard (25 June) . . Page.. 2041 ..


MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (11.00): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move the amendments circulated in my name and to move them together.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: I move:

Amendment -

Page 1, lines 4 and 5, clause 1, omit ÒHealth and Community Care Services (Validation of Fees and Charges)Ó, substitute ÒFees and Charges (Validation)Ó.

Proposed new clauses 4 to 9 -

Page 2, line 21, add the following new clauses to the Bill:

ÒAmbulance service fees determination - revival

4. (1) Notwithstanding its revocation, the instrument entitled Determination of Fees and Charges No. 28 of 1995 signed by the Minister for Health and Community Care and dated 4 April 1995, being the instrument notified in Australian Capital Territory Gazette No. S78 of 10 April 1995, shall, so far as it relates to fees for the provision of an ambulance service, be deemed by force of this section -

(a) to have had effect during the period that commenced on 1 July 1995 and ended at the expiration of 30 June 1996 as if Item I in the Schedule to the instrument had been replaced by an item consisting of columns 1, 2 and 3 in the table at the foot of this section;

(b) to have had effect, and to have effect, during the period that commenced on 1 July 1996 and ending when the first determination under section 11A of the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990 as amended by this Act takes effect as if Item I in the Schedule to the instrument had been replaced by an item consisting of columns 1, 2 and 4 in the table at the foot of this section; and


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