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(c) a Standing Committee on Health, Ageing, Community and Social Services to examine matters related to hospitals, community, public and mental health, health promotion and disease prevention, disability matters, drug and substance misuse, targeted health programs and community services, including services for older persons and women, families, housing, poverty, and multicultural and indigenous affairs;
(d) a Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety to perform a legislative scrutiny role and examine matters related to community and individual rights, consumer rights, courts, police and emergency services, corrections including a prison, governance and industrial relations, administrative law, civil liberties and human rights, censorship, company law, law and order, criminal law, consumer affairs and regulatory services; and
(e) a Standing Committee on Planning, Environment and Territory and Municipal Services to examine matters related to planning, public works, land management, municipal and transport services, heritage and sport and recreation and matters related to all aspects of climate change policy and programs, water and energy policy and programs, provision of water and energy services, conservation, environment and ecological sustainability.
(2) The Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety when performing its legislative scrutiny role shall:
(a) consider whether any instrument of a legislative nature made under an Act which is subject to disallowance and/or disapproval by the Assembly (including a regulation, rule or by-law):
(i) is in accord with the general objects of the Act under which it is made;
(ii) unduly trespasses on rights previously established by law;
(iii) makes rights, liberties and/or obligations unduly dependent upon non-reviewable decisions; or
(iv) contains matter which in the opinion of the Committee should properly be dealt with in an Act of the Legislative Assembly;
(b) consider whether any explanatory statement or explanatory memorandum associated with legislation and any regulatory impact statement meets the technical or stylistic standards expected by the Committee;
(c) consider whether the clauses of bills (and amendments proposed by the Government to its own bills) introduced into the Assembly:
(i) unduly trespass on personal rights and liberties;
(ii) make rights, liberties and/or obligations unduly dependent upon insufficiently defined administrative powers;
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