Page 2199 - Week 08 - Wednesday, 6 June 1990
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This proposal cannot be effective unless fair trading legislation is introduced in the ACT. I take this opportunity to announce that the Attorney-General will ensure that fair trading legislation will be introduced as a matter of some urgency. The fair trading legislation will contain the necessary provisions to ensure that codes of practice can, as the ultimate sanction, be enforced.
The select committee also recommended that the industry be given six months from the tabling of its report to reach agreement on a code of practice. I have just indicated that the Government considers that the New South Wales code provides a sound basis for developing a code for the ACT. In view of this and the Government's desire to deal with this issue quickly, I shall be asking the industry to put a code to the Government at an early date. The Office of Industry and Development will facilitate these discussions.
The Government also notes that the select committee recommendations follow closely the submissions put to it by the previous Labor Government. We welcome a bipartisan approach to this issue. Not to do so would be to ignore the reality of today's situation which calls for less, not more, intrusion into business if we are to be able to get our economy onto a sounder footing.
The Government is pleased to have been able to respond positively to the committee's recommendations. I urge the principal landlord and tenant organisations to accept reform and set about achieving a mutually acceptable code without delay. I am confident that the broad range of expertise within these organisations will ensure that the issues will be addressed in a fair and unselfish manner.
I thank the select committee for its hard work and concern to ensure a fair outcome for both tenants and landlords. I extend to the landlord and tenant organisations my good wishes for an effective outcome. I commend this statement to the Assembly.
Debate (on motion by Mr Connolly) adjourned.
PAPER
MR JENSEN: I seek leave to present an out-of-order petition.
Leave granted.
MR JENSEN: I present an out-of-order petition from 256 students and residents concerning the proposed closure of schools. This petition is in the form of a letter to Mr Humphries which was presented to me by some students from Tuggeranong at a public meeting at the Isabella Plains Primary School last Monday night. I gave an undertaking to the students, and to the meeting as well, that I would present that petition to this Assembly.
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