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policy statements about the Parliamentary Zone, Diplomatic Missions and the Airport, all of which are within Designated Areas. Finally, the MPP is superseded by the National Capital Plan with respect to policies relating to the National Capital Open Space System, and is further revoked to that extent.
That is not a total revocation. Quite a lot of it, in fact, is still current, as I read this particular document. It seems to me that the broad policies that may have been in this document have been picked up by the National Capital Plan itself. As my colleague Mr Collaery has already indicated, clause 7 of the Bill says that the Territory Plan cannot do anything that is inconsistent with the National Capital Plan.
So, it would seem to me that, if, as Mr Moore has indicated, the Territory Planning Authority admits in its Planning Report that that particular document is not a strategic plan in any way, shape or form, it could be argued that what we have left, from a strategic planning point of view, is, in fact, the National Capital Plan dated December 1990 and those aspects of the Metropolitan Policy Development Plan dated July 1984 which in fact are still current. I think that to suggest, as Mr Wood has done, that this particular document has been revoked is not strictly accurate, and I draw that to Mr Wood's attention. I will be interested to hear his response both to my remarks and to those of Mr Collaery on this issue.
MR MOORE (9.27): Mr Speaker, I move:
Omit "with the document known as", substitute "with the documents known as the National Capital Plan 1990 and".
This is an amendment to my own amendment. I take the point that Mr Wood raised, namely, that we ought also to include the National Capital Plan. Mr Collaery, in his speech, addressed the fact that the National Capital Plan is already referred to in the Bill in the following terms:
The object of the Plan shall be to ensure, in a manner not inconsistent with the National Capital Plan, that the planning and development of the Territory provides the people of the Territory with an attractive, safe and efficient environment ...
Of course, those words come directly from one of the self-government Acts. Having read that, I felt at the time that it was appropriate simply to use the Metropolitan Policy Plan in terms of the strategy. But I take Mr Wood's point, which I think is a valid one, that, until a strategic document is prepared, the National Capital Plan is a relevant strategic planning document, and that we should
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