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LAND (PLANNING AND ENVIRONMENT) BILL 1991
Detail Stage
Consideration resumed from 21 November 1991.
Clause 16
MR JENSEN (11.10): Mr Deputy Speaker, I seek leave to move together amendments Nos 11 and 12 that have been circulated in my name.
Leave granted.
MR JENSEN: I move:
Page 9, line 3, omit "recommendation submitted", substitute "submission made".
Page 9, line 5, omit "recommendation", substitute "submission".
Mr Deputy Speaker, these amendments relate to proposals that, hopefully, will eventually be agreed to in relation to clause 10 when we go back to it later on. As I understand it, the Government accepts these two amendments. They are to ensure that a full report, with reasons and justification, is made available to the Executive and eventually, if things go to plan of course, the Assembly committee and the Assembly. A bare statement is not necessarily sufficient in these cases. The example that I continue to give relates to such things as traffic management. All we have been getting in relation to variations in the past has been comments that the assessment has been done and there are no traffic problems, or the Conservator of Wildlife has no problems or concerns.
I think it is important for a brief statement to be included in the draft variation documents saying why decisions have been made. That will assist the process and may save the community a lot of time and concern - and probably even the committee and the Assembly when they come to consider these issues. If sufficient information is provided early enough, there will be no problems and the process will flow quite smoothly. I am pleased that the Government supports these amendments.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.12): Mr Deputy Speaker, the Government agrees with these amendments.
Amendments agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 17 agreed to.
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