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operation of the legislation. In order to ensure that there is ample opportunity for interested persons and organisations to examine the revised draft Bills, the period allowed for the additional period of public consultation will extend until the end of February next year.
In addition to the revised draft Bills, we are releasing a number of other documents which will assist in understanding the legislation or which otherwise relate to the planning and land use package. They include an overall statement, explaining the underlying principles of the integrated system and briefly describing the content of each draft Bill; a public consultation report, summarising and discussing the major issues raised during the first round of consultation and outlining the rationale for the Government's response to each issue; and draft heritage criteria, for assessing the heritage significance of places and objects. When finalised, these will be used by the Heritage Council in determining what should be included in the interim registers of heritage places and objects.
They also include draft regulations under the Environmental Assessments and Inquiries Bill; draft disallowable instruments and a statement about regulations under the Land Administration Bill; and draft amendments to the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act and the Administrative Decisions (Judicial Review) Act. These amendments are necessary to give effect to rights of merit review and legal challenges under the integrated system. This is a very comprehensive set of documents, Mr Speaker, to allow the community at large to understand and to comment upon this important legislation.
Mr Speaker, as can be seen from the list of documents, the Government has gone to considerable trouble to provide a comprehensive body of explanatory and background material in order to assist interested groups and individuals in examining, and commenting upon, the revised draft planning and land use legislation. Perhaps even the Opposition will take the trouble to respond.
The further period of public consultation demonstrates our commitment to community involvement in developing this important legislation. As members will be aware, the Interim Planning Act of 1990 was enacted earlier this week and when I introduced the interim Bill into the Assembly in November I stated - and I should like to repeat it now - that the passage of the interim legislation would not prevent full consultation occurring in relation to the planning and land use package.
The draft Planning Bill which I have tabled today contains provisions identical to those in the interim Act for making and varying the Territory Plan and for establishing the Territory Planning Authority. Should the further round of consultation result in changes being required to these provisions, they will be incorporated into the finalised legislation.
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