Page 2528 - Week 09 - Tuesday, 11 August 2015

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It is open to the Assembly to “express their support for the completion, without further delay, of the full approved development of the shops currently under construction” as suggested in the petition. The timing however is subject to the decision of the Court of Appeal which is currently under consideration.

Limitations on third party appeal rights are already in place in the ACT, and would not have prevented a judicial review appeal of this matter in the ACT Supreme Court, the ACT Court of Appeal, or the High Court. Judicial review of matters before the High Court is simply beyond the statutory jurisdiction of the Assembly.

I appreciate and welcome Mr Coe’s openness to resolve this matter by other legislative means. I will consider other available legislative avenues should this matter not be resolved through the upcoming decision of the Court of Appeal.

Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee

Scrutiny report 35

MR DOSZPOT (Molonglo): I present the following report:

Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee (Legislative Scrutiny Role)—Scrutiny Report 35, dated 10 August 2015, together with the relevant minutes of proceedings.

I seek leave to make a brief statement.

Leave granted.

MR DOSZPOT: Scrutiny report 35 contains the committee’s comments on 127 pieces of subordinate legislation and one government response. The report was circulated to members when the Assembly was not sitting. I commend the report to the Assembly.

Justice and Community Safety—Standing Committee

Reporting date—amendment

MR DOSZPOT (Molonglo) (10.01): I seek leave to move a motion to alter the reporting date for the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety’s inquiry into the Human Rights Amendment Bill 2015.

Leave granted.

MR DOSZPOT: I move:

That the resolution of the Assembly of 7 May 2015 referring the Human Rights Amendment Bill 2015 to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety for inquiry and report be amended by omitting the words “the last sitting day in September 2015” and substituting “the last sitting day in November 2015.

Question resolved in the affirmative.


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