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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 2 Hansard (29 February) . . Page.. 318 ..
MR QUINLAN (continuing):
vehicle registrations that are compulsory as a result of the Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act, or if a change is made within 30 days to rectify an error or omission of registration, will not be charged duty. The Opposition supports the Bill.
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (10.36), in reply: Mr Speaker, I thank the Opposition for its support for the Bill. I hope that with the passage of this Bill the many important reforms which have been part of the national road transport package can be proceeded with quickly and effectively, and that the community will have the benefit of those positive changes to the way in which Australian road transport operates. I hope that the movement of ownership on the record of certain parties will now be more effectively accomplished because of the capacity to waive duty in appropriate circumstances.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR QUINLAN (10.37): I have to say that I remain somewhat mystified as to exactly how we got to this point via Bruce Operations Pty Ltd. I guess we can look forward to the Auditor - General's report on the Bruce Stadium to understand why it was necessary to set up Bruce Operations Pty Ltd. Now we are moving towards setting up a statutory authority to run Bruce Stadium.
The Bill presented to us virtually sets up a statutory authority called the Stadiums Corporation. I give notice of my intention to move amendments to ensure that if it is a statutory authority it is so named, and that we do not build confusion into the use and the nomenclature of the business bodies that the Government sets up If corporatisation means something then the title "corporation" also means something. If the term "territory owned corporation" means something and this is not one of those things, we rather think that it should be called what it is, and that is an authority. So we will be seeking to amend the Bill to ensure that the business body that is appointed to run the stadium will be called what it is, an authority.
We also notice in the Bill that the functions and the powers of the original body are quite wide. In fact this particular body, as set up by the legislation, could do pretty well anything and run pretty well anything. I rather thought that that was probably not the intent. Surely, it was purely an accident. Therefore, we have taken the liberty of also preparing amendments to the Bill to ensure that if this body is given authority over
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