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MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.15), in reply: Madam Speaker, if there are no further speakers, I thank the Opposition for their support of the Bill. I have not had an opportunity to look at the amendments which Mr De Domenico is proposing, so I think we will have to take them up as we come to each clause of the Bill. As Mr De Domenico has noted, this is a Bill which was left over from the Assembly's business last year. It is one for which we have been pressing for some time. I think the sooner that it comes into operation and the sooner the fidelity guarantee fund is commenced the better it will be for our community, particularly for consumers in our community. I thank the Opposition for their support.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail Stage
Clauses 1 to 6, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.
Clause 7
Debate (on motion by Mr Berry) adjourned.
SURVEYORS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
[COGNATE BILLS:
DISTRICTS (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
REAL PROPERTY (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992]
Debate resumed from 9 April 1992, on motion by Mr Wood:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Districts (Amendment) Bill 1992 and the Real Property (Amendment) Bill 1992? There being no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that in debating order of the day No. 4 they may also address their remarks to orders of the day No. 5 and No. 6.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (10.17): The Opposition has no objection to these Bills and we have no amendments to put to them. There are some general comments that I would like to make about the general subject matter that the Bills relate to, Madam Speaker. The first is to note that what the Bills do is to recognise the reality that certain functions have transferred from the Commonwealth to the Territory and that requires amendment to our Acts to make sure that there are people designated to perform those functions. They are fairly straightforward amendments and we have no difficulty with that.
I do have a difficulty, however, with the fact that our information suggests that when this function transferred from the Commonwealth some 64 people were transferred with it. It is my recollection that a year or a year-and-a-half ago, when this matter was being considered by the Alliance Government, a judgment was
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