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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 3 Hansard (6 March) . . Page.. 674 ..
Clause 51, as recommitted, as amended.
MR RUGENDYKE (10.16): Mr Speaker, we are back to the pink sheet. I move amendment No 1 on the pink sheet circulated in my name [see schedule 3 part 3 at page 716].
Mr Speaker, this is consequential to the insertion of my amendments relating to the lessors' intentions about renewal, and rules of conduct at the end of the lease term, for shopping centre leases under proposed sections 107 and 107A.
MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (10.18): The government will be opposing it, of course, Mr Speaker.
Question put:
The Assembly voted-
Ayes, 6 Noes, 5 Mr Berry Ms Tucker Mrs Burke Mr Corbell Mr Cornwell Mr Hargreaves Mr Hird Mr Rugendyke Mr Smyth Mr Stanhope Mr StefaniakQuestion so resolved in the affirmative.
Amendment agreed to.
MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (10.23): Mr Speaker, I will not proceed with this next amendment.
MR SPEAKER: Thank you.
MR STANHOPE: Could I speak, just briefly. Do I need leave to speak or-
MR SPEAKER: Proceed.
MR STANHOPE: This particular provision mirrors one that we debated earlier and which the Labor Party, in the event, chose not to support. It was an amendment moved by Mr Stefaniak.
I have to say that the issue has caused me some heartburn, and I think it is one of those issues over which opinion really is very split. At the end of the day, it does call for a judgment to be made. We have made judgment on it now.
I think it is relevant that I put this on the record. I would just like to say that, if an arrangement is made between a landlord and a tenant under the new preferential tenancy arrangements under proposed section 107A-or whatever the appropriate
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