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The difficulty seems to be that there are only bits of the Metropolitan Policy Plan still in place, and in many cases there will not be any relevant provisions still extant. If Mr Moore will accept that amendment, I think we might be able to get some agreement on it.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (6.02): Mr Speaker, the Government will still oppose this. My strong advice remains that we do not now know specifically what the Metropolitan Policy Plan covers. Your amendment is certainly better; but I would still have some anxiety about litigation, about what is or is not relevant. I think you are building up problems there. On that ground, we will still oppose this amendment, although it is not as overwhelming a difficulty as the one proposed by Mr Moore.
Amendment (Mr Kaine's) agreed to.
Amendment (Mr Moore's), as amended, agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 50
MR COLLAERY (6.03): I move:
Page 22, line 27, after the word "provision", add the words "or of a variation of the provision".
We have had the debate. I do not intend to address the issue further. I understand that the Minister agrees.
Mr Wood: Which one is this?
MR COLLAERY: Clause 50.
MR SPEAKER: Read your amendment, please, Mr Collaery.
MR COLLAERY: The amendment is to clause 50, page 22, line 27; to add, after the word "provision", the words "or of a variation of the provision".
Mr Wood: Yes, that is fine.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 127, as amended
Amendment (by Mr Wood) proposed:
Page 59, lines 4 to 14, subclause (1), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclause:
"(1) The Environment Minister may, by giving reasonable notice to -
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