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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 5069 ..

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Attachment B

TABLING STATEMENT

STANDING COMMITTEE ON LEGAL AFFAIRS

REPORT NO. 5 ON

INQUIRY INTO THE VOLUNTARY CODES OF PRACTICE FOR LIQUOR

LICENSEES

GOVERNMENT RESPONSE

I am pleased to table the Government response to Report No. 5 of the Standing Committee on Legal Affairs inquiry into the voluntary codes of practice for liquor licensees.

The principal recommendation of the report is that material in the Voluntary Codes of Practice be included in the Licensing Standards Manual contained in the Liquor Act with accompanying penalties for non-compliance. The Committee made this recommendation having accepted evidence that the Voluntary Codes of Practice have not been effective.

Voluntary Codes of Practice were first launched in August 1994 in Civic with most licensees involved. The Codes provided the liquor industry with the opportunity to foster and develop self regulation and the project had the support of Government, the police, the Liquor Licensing Board and the community. Unfortunately, the industry failed to meet the standards of the codes of practice and therefore failed the test of self regulation.

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