Page 5414 - Week 17 - Tuesday, 3 December 1991
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because it just keeps us going round and round endlessly discussing things. Ample consultation and discussion have been proposed. This amendment does not really do anything at all to help. It is purely a hindrance.
MR MOORE (4.27): Mr Speaker, I support the amendment put by Mr Jensen. I draw attention to the fact that the amendment provides that a notice be published in the Gazette by advertising and in a daily newspaper. This gets back to the issue that Mr Wood raised earlier when we moved that the notice in a daily newspaper be on a Saturday. Since then I have had a number of discussions with Mr Wood and with Mr Kaine on this issue. I have yet to get back to other members, but I will raise it now.
Mr Wood assures me that he is prepared to make it an administrative practice to have the Saturday as the day on which these notices appear. By having it as practice rather than in legislation, the problems that Mr Wood raised earlier will be resolved. When we have had assurances that things would be made practice, they have been made practice and that has resolved the problem.
Therefore, if somebody accidentally advertises on a Wednesday, instead of having a major problem the department can draw attention to that, advertise on the Saturday as well, and the problem will be resolved. There will not be the situation where somebody's house has to be pulled down because somebody else finds a legal loophole. With that in mind, I am certainly prepared to accept, I understand that the Leader of the Opposition is prepared to accept, and Mr Jensen acknowledges that he is also prepared to accept, that Saturday advertising be administrative practice.
Therefore, I will later move that we recall clause 16 to remove the reference to Saturday and just proceed with the provision that notices regarding variations appear in the daily newspaper, as is proposed by Mr Jensen in this particular amendment. So, we will be able to resolve that problem in an appropriate way, following discussion. I think that is a very positive step forward, and I hope that the rest of the legislation will be debated in such a sensible way as well.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.29): Mr Speaker, before you put the matter to a vote, I move the amendment that I foreshadowed earlier:
Omit "and" at the end of paragraph (a), and omit paragraph (b).
I have no objection to the notification by Gazette and by daily newspaper, but I do not think it is necessary to write to everybody.
MR JENSEN (4.30): Mr Speaker, we will be opposing Mr Kaine's amendment, but we will not be calling for a division.
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