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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 3042 ..

MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services) (11.13): Mr Speaker, I understand the reservation that Mr Whitecross has about this, but I have to say that I do not believe that the objective that he seeks by these amendments is achievable. You can prohibit a dealer from carrying out inspections, but there are a number of ways that that prohibition could be avoided, and legally avoided. For example, a dealer will have a very costly investment in workshop equipment. In fact, all he needs to do is to turn that workshop equipment into a separate registered company and it is totally unrelated to the dealership and he can legally become an inspector. Similarly, any person within a dealership who is not, in fact, the dealer can still become an authorised examiner and, depending on arrangements within a dealership, what appears to be a dealer's premises could conceivably still be approved as authorised premises. So, simply putting these amendments or prohibitions in the Act, in my view, achieves nothing.

I understand his motivation to obviate the possibility of a dealer certifying his own vehicles, but I think it would be quite ineffective. I think it sounds good; but, unless he can come up with a more positive way of achieving his objective, it has no practical value. For that reason, I do not support the amendments.

Question put:

That the amendments (Mr Whitecross's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 10	NOES, 7

	Mr Berry	Mrs Carnell
	Mr Corbell	Mr Cornwell
	Ms Horodny	Mr Hird
	Ms McRae	Mr Humphries
	Mr Moore	Mr Kaine
	Mr Osborne	Mrs Littlewood
	Ms Reilly	Mr Stefaniak
	Ms Tucker
	Mr Whitecross
	Mr Wood

MR WHITECROSS (11.18): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move together amendments Nos 6 and 7 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR WHITECROSS: I move:

Page 11, line 23, after proposed subsection 26AG(3), insert the following subsection:

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