Page 5639 - Week 17 - Thursday, 5 December 1991

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(10B) The Executive shall make copies of the advice referred to in paragraph (10A)(c) available for public inspection during office hours during the period and at the place specified in the notice.

(10C) Where the Executive grants a lease in reliance upon its powers under subsection (10), it shall cause -

(a) a copy of the lease;

(b) a statement of the amount (if any) paid for the grant of the lease; and

to be laid before the Legislative Assembly within 5 sitting days after the date on which the lease is granted.".

This amendment, No. 82, circulated in my name, relates to some additions to clause 164, which requires the Executive to go through a process when they are granting leases under subclauses (9) and (10). We are talking here about granting special leases and leases in special areas. That is why we think it is appropriate in this case for the Executive to go through the process of granting a lease after they have advised, by a notice in the Gazette and a daily newspaper, that they are proposing to grant a lease under subsection (10), and for the lease and any agreement collateral to the lease, et cetera, to be tabled in the Assembly. The Government has already agreed to some parts of this process, but I am not quite sure whether they agree to the processes I am suggesting here with the three additional subclauses.

I am also saying that the Executive should make available for public inspection copies of the advice referred from the authority to them. When they grant a lease under subsection (10), they should be required to go through the process of laying the lease before the Assembly with appropriate collateral information.

MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (12.25): I think this is another case where the Residents Rally has gone right over the top, placing all sorts of obligations on people to advertise in newspapers and make things available for inspection. This again is a case where Mr Jensen has changed his ground. His first proposal on this issue was to allow the Assembly to disallow a lease. I was totally opposed to that. I do not see how you can be negotiating a lease and then have somebody in the Assembly saying, "No, we are going to disallow that".

Mr Jensen: That was an aberration. That slipped in when I was not looking.

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