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MS FOLLETT: I find that an extraordinary way to behave, but the amendment gives me no difficulties. What is of absolute fascination to me is that Mr Collaery, having voted against the Bill, is at a later stage going to be forced to vote on the Bill, as amended. I really cannot wait to see whether he is going to vote against or for it, as amended.
I would not attempt to speculate what might be in his mind, but I simply remind him that if he votes against the Bill as amended he, in effect, votes against the very amendment which he himself has moved and which, as I say, the Government does not oppose. But I guess stranger things have happened, and in stranger places, and there is absolutely no accounting for Mr Collaery's course of action or for the logic which underlies that course of action.
Amendment agreed to.
Bill as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
TRADE MEASUREMENT BILL 1991
[COGNATE BILLS:
TRADE MEASUREMENT (ADMINISTRATION) BILL 1991
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1991]
Debate resumed from 12 September 1991, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR ACTING SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Trade Measurement (Administration) Bill 1991 and the Weights and Measures (Amendment) Bill 1991? There being no objection, that course will be followed, and I remind members in debating order of the day No. 2 they may also address their remarks to orders of the day No. 3 and No. 4.
MR JENSEN (5.52): Mr Acting Speaker, I will not be very long, but I wish to make just a few anecdotal comments about this particular legislation. Quite obviously, the legislation being revised has been sitting around for some considerable time and it is well overdue for review, like a lot of the legislation governing the ACT, because of the inability of administrators to get any more than three or four Bills through a Federal Cabinet. But I think that that is one of the important factors about having self-government.
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