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SMALL CLAIMS (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (10.36): Mr Speaker, I present the Small Claims (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
This Bill amends the Small Claims Act 1930. It is the third of the three Bills which amend the legislation regulating the Magistrates Court in relation to fees and charges. The Bill provides for the filing fees under the Act to be set by ministerial determination and makes consequential technical amendments. The Small Claims Regulations, which prescribed the fees, are repealed by the Bill. Ministerial determination of the fees brings the Act into line with Territory drafting practice and, as in the other two cases, the fees remain subject to the will of this Assembly. I present the explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Stefaniak) adjourned.
BUILDING (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1991
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (10.37): Mr Speaker, I present the Building (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1991. I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
This Bill seeks to adopt the Building Code of Australia and the ACT Appendix as the standard for building work in this Territory. The Building Code of Australia was developed by the Australian Uniform Building Regulations Co-ordinating Council, known as AUBRCC - which sounds like a creature in a science fiction movie - an association of State and Territory building control authorities.
The Building Code of Australia was first published by the council in December 1988 as a national standard for building work. It was at the 1987 Local Government Ministers Conference that support for the adoption of the Building Code of Australia was agreed in principle as a first step towards a national standard. So far Victoria, Western Australia, South Australia and the Northern Territory have formally adopted the Building Code of Australia, with other States, including New South Wales, moving towards it.
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