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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 2 Hansard (1 March) . . Page.. 495 ..

Clause 61.

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (3.45): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move together amendments Nos 16 and 17 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR STEFANIAK: I move together amendments Nos 16 and 17 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 523]. These two amendments to clause 61 (1) and 61 (2) have been redrafted to correct minor syntax errors and recognise, in clause 61 (1) (b), that an act may provide a later commencement for a registrable instrument. Examples have also been included for clause 61 (1) (b).

In relation to amendment 17, clause 61 (4) has been redrafted to correct minor syntactic errors and recognise, in clause 61 (4) (b), that an act may provide a later commencement for a statutory instrument that is not a registrable instrument.

Amendments agreed to.

Clause 61, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 62 to 78, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 79.

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (3.47): I move amendment No 18 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 523].

This amendment, Mr Speaker, applies clause 79, which covers insertion of provisions by amending law, to the relocation of provisions as well.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 79, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 80 and 81, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 82.

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (3.48): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 19 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 523].

Amendment No 19 amends clause 82 and makes it clear that, if a law authorises or requires the making of an appointment or statutory instrument by an entity and the law is amended, an appointment or statutory instrument made under the amended law continues under the amended law, whether the appointment or instrument may be made under the amended law by the same entity or a different entity.

Amendment agreed to.

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