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Mr Speaker, in concluding I emphasise that this additional period of public consultation is a very positive response by the Government to the desire throughout the community to allow for further open consideration of the draft Bills. By providing the maximum opportunity for public participation in developing this legislation I am quite confident that the Government can fulfil its aims and that it can create an efficient, effective and equitable planning system to which all Canberrans have had an opportunity to contribute.
I present the following paper:
Planning and land use - Public consultation on Government's draft legislation - Ministerial statement, 15 August 1990.
Motion (by Mr Kaine) agreed to:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
POLICE SERVICES
Ministerial Statement and Paper
MR COLLAERY (Attorney-General), by leave: Mr Speaker, on 25 July 1990 the Minister for Justice and Consumer Affairs, Senator Michael Tate, and I signed an arrangement for the provision of police services in the ACT. As members would be aware, the arrangement is the product of extensive negotiations between the ACT and the Commonwealth, both at senior officer level and between Senator Tate and me.
Ms Follett: We got done.
MR COLLAERY: The Leader of the Opposition interjects and says, "We got dudded".
Ms Follett: No, "done".
MR COLLAERY: Mr Speaker, I would like the record to show that a lot of those negotiations happened under her aegis. Anyway, this provides a sound basis for the ACT to work with the Commonwealth to ensure that the high standard of policing in the ACT is maintained and that the police continue to be responsive to the needs and concerns of the community.
Let me make it quite clear, Mr Speaker, that statutory responsibility for the Australian Federal Police and the provision of police services in the ACT remains with the Commonwealth. Subsection 23, paragraph (1) of the Australian Capital Territory (Self-Government) Act provides that the Legislative Assembly has no power to make laws with respect to the provision by the Australian Federal Police of police services in the ACT. Moreover, section 8 of the AFP Act 1979 stipulates that the AFP shall provide
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