Page 1735 - Week 06 - Tuesday, 6 June 2006
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The government remains committed to working out with the legal profession their remaining concerns, most of which now relate to implementation, rather than underlying policy. I am confident that the next few months will see the completion not only of this process, but also of the process of revision of the model bill.
For now, this bill is ready for passage and commencement. The new scheme can be implemented in the ACT on 1 July, as agreed between the states and territories. Because this bill draws on recent work on review of the model law and from changes made to the equivalent legislation in other jurisdictions, it places the ACT in an ideal position to move easily to the next stage of revision, when review of the model law is complete. The current uncertainly will, I am sure, be rewarded with an ease of transition. I thank members for their support and commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for Planning) (11.18): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 1 to 14 circulated in my name together and table a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments.
Leave granted.
MR CORBELL: I move amendments Nos 1 to 14 circulated in my name together [see schedule 1 at page 1795].
Mr Speaker, I have already alluded to these minor amendments in my closing speech to the in-principle stage of the debate and I understand that members of the opposition and the crossbench have been briefed on these amendments. But, for the purpose of the record, very briefly these amendments to the bill have the effect of correcting the functions of the admission board established under part 7.1 of the bill; correcting a typographical error in clause 21 (4) of the bill; clarifying the right of a party to appeal to the Supreme Court from decisions of the disciplinary tribunal established under part 7.2 of the bill; removing an incorrect note to clause 428 of the bill; and correcting references to the appropriate fund in schedule 3 to the bill.
These are minor and technical amendments designed to improve the workability of the legislation, particularly as it relates to appeals from the disciplinary tribunal hearing and a range of other minor matters. They are no substantive departure from the substantive bill presented to the Assembly earlier.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
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