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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (2 September) . . Page.. 2726 ..

MR WOOD: Madam Deputy Speaker, I seek the Assembly's leave to make a short statement.

Leave granted.

MR WOOD: I thank you for your tolerance on this Bill of very massive importance. It is obviously supported by the Opposition, although I must say with a little disappointment that no longer will the Act applying to Yongaleatha Marble, Flag and Flux Co. Ltd be part of our purview! There is a fascinating series of private Acts that we are now dispensing with. I am sure there is a lot of potential for historical interest in some of this stuff, but it is not an interest that this Assembly needs to have. We support this Bill.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

Debate resumed from 19 June 1997, on motion by Mrs Carnell:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.

Debate resumed from 15 May 1997, on motion by Mr Stefaniak:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MS McRAE (11.35): This Bill is very straightforward and the Opposition will be supporting it. It is a curious Bill because it catches up with something that nobody saw at the time the legislation was amended to allow for the registration of new providers, not that there was any reason for anybody to actually see it. Strangely, people who had been registered up until then, albeit not by legislation, were somehow not caught up in the new legislation. It is a perfectly sensible Bill to ensure that the legislative sweep now covers all. The Bill allows also for reporting times which fit better into our patterns of reporting. The Opposition has no opposition to this Bill and will be supporting it.

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