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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4870 ..

Detail Stage

Clause 1 agreed to.

Clause 2

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister) (5.11): Mr Speaker, on behalf of Mr Humphries, I move:

Page 1, line 9, subclauses (2) and (3), omit the subclauses, substitute the following subclause:

"(2) The remaining provisions commence on the first day after the end of the period within which a regulation made for the purposes of the definition of `energy efficiency rating statement' in section 3 may cease to have effect by force of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 unless the regulation did so cease to have effect.".

Mr Speaker, this amendment delays the commencement of the legislation until after the regulation to establish the energy efficiency rating statement is made. This will enable work to be undertaken with industry and community groups to develop a scheme that is simple and cost effective. This amendment arises from our concern that the legislation should be phased in and not implemented without developing a simple but effective energy efficiency rating statement and educating people about its use, application and benefit.

MS TUCKER (5.12): Mr Speaker, I move the following amendment to the proposed amendment:

Omit all words after "following", substitute:

"(2) The remaining provisions commence on the day after the end of the period within which a regulation made for the purposes of the definition of `energy efficiency rating statement' in section 3 may cease to have effect by force of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 unless the regulation did so cease to have effect.

(3) If the Act has not commenced before the end of the period of 12 months commencing on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette, those provisions, by force of this subsection, commence on the first day after the end of that period.".

Basically, what this is doing is insisting that, if nothing has happened at the end of the period of 12 months, this Act will actually be put in place and enacted anyway. This is to prevent this thing from just falling off the edge of the table.

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