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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4219 ..
MR STANHOPE (continuing):
maximum amount of a substance that a person may take into the facility. It stipulates that a drug dependent person is not permitted by the legislation to possess a substance outside the facility.
Proposed new clause 8B says that drug injecting equipment will be provided at the facility. Proposed new clause 8C is a mechanical technical provision which provides that this Assembly and the community have available to it whatever information should reasonably be supplied in relation to the way the facility is operating. This information is not to be regarded as confidential. It can be revealed without breaching the privacy of individuals. It is important that all possible information be made available to the Assembly and, through the Assembly, to the community. This provision seeks to achieve that purpose.
Proposed new clauses agreed to.
Clause 9 agreed to.
Proposed new Parts
Amendment (by Mr Stanhope ) proposed:
That the following new Parts be inserted in the Bill: Page 4, line 27:
"Part 2A-Advisory committee
9A Advisory committee
An advisory committee, to be called the Supervised Drug Injection Trial Advisory Committee, is established.
9B Functions and powers of committee
(1) The functions of the advisory committee are-
(a) to make written recommendations to the Minister about the matters mentioned in subsection 9L (1); and
(b) to perform such other functions as are conferred on the advisory committee by this Act, the regulations or another law of the Territory.
(2) The advisory committee has the power necessary or convenient for the performance of its functions.
9C Constitution
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the advisory committee consists of 16 members made up as follows:
(a) the chief executive;
(b) 1 person nominated by, and representing, each of the following persons or bodies:
(i) the Australian Federal Police;
(ii) the Director of Public Prosecutions;
(iii) the ACT Legal Aid Office;
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