Page 4717 - Week 15 - Thursday, 21 November 1991
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MR JENSEN: No, we have not.
Mr Moore: We passed that amendment. Are you going to move another amendment?
MR JENSEN: I thought we were still talking about Mr Kaine's amendment and your amendment.
Mr Moore: Indeed, as amended by me.
MR JENSEN: Of course.
MR SPEAKER: Order, Mr Moore!
MR JENSEN: Thank you. It could be argued that this legislation could be started on 1 January. That would require considerable amendment to this legislation because unfortunately the plan is not ready. As we look at it, there are a number of issues, as I have already indicated before. I probably need to reiterate them because some people may have forgotten them. In some areas there is direct reference to the plan and there is a need to say that certain things will take place in accordance with the plan. As we know, the period for consultation on the plan does not finish until 20 March. We are talking about a very short period before this planning legislation is going to take effect if this particular amendment goes ahead.
I would suggest that Mr Wood's department is going to have some difficulty in producing for us a Territory Plan that is going to be able to run off this legislation even if it starts on 2 April or 1 January. Whether it is 1 January, or 2 April, or 1 July, I think that Mr Wood and his department are going to have some difficulties in relating this legislation to the plan because the plan, which is a very important part of the legislation, in fact will not be ready. We do not have the time, I believe, to make the necessary changes to the legislation here tonight that would enable that to take place.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (8.21): Mr Speaker, I think Mr Jensen's filibuster has now been cleared up in that a point of procedure was overlooked, perhaps. I understand that the Rally was expecting me to indicate that we would observe standing order 187, which allows us, I believe, to come back to clauses once we have been through them. Understanding that, I expect that the members of the Rally will not stall, as they appear to be doing. We will certainly come back to your amendments.
Amendment (Mr Kaine's), as amended, agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
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