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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4764 ..

(b) two or more Ministers are jointly engaged in the negotiations in question,

a requirement of this Act may be fulfilled by one of those Ministers consulting, or providing information, on behalf of all the relevant Ministers.

(2) In relation to negotiations for a particular agreement, a Minister is required to fulfil a requirement in sections 6, 7, 8 and 9 once only, and those requirements do not apply on a second or further occasion where, in the course of ongoing negotiations, the circumstances which would otherwise give rise to a requirement arise again.".

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Schedule

Amendment (by Mr Moore) agreed to:

Page 5, line 7, add "of the Premiers Conference".

Schedule, as amended, agreed to.

Title agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Debate resumed from 3 December 1997, on motion by Ms Horodny:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MS McRAE (4.49): It is with a level of frustration that I participate in the debate on this Bill. Today we are trying to do several complicated things. I am very disappointed that the issues that we are dealing with are being dealt with via this private members Bill. Even to agree to it in principle is something that I would prefer not to do, because I was severely advised a few months back that many of the matters that are being dealt with in the Bill are not appropriate to be dealt with in this Bill.

As I alluded to in an adjournment debate last week, I have been approached by quite a few people who are concerned about an error that occurred in an amendment to the Land (Planning and Environment) Act, the primary Act, late last year. As I pointed out in the adjournment debate, the problem was that the Minister had said in his explanatory

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