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MS SZUTY (11.52), in reply: I would like to respond to several points which have been made during this debate. I do take the point that it is not necessarily the objectives that have been outlined in this draft variation which are at issue. They are minor changes, although, as Mr Moore pointed out, they can be significant changes in some cases. What is the issue of concern here is the need for open public and community consultation processes on the issue. Just because no-one has formally objected to the normal practice of the past seven years, that does not mean that the wider community has been able to have a formalised input on this matter of policy.
Mr Wood has identified the critical date of 16 July 1992 as being imperative to see the passage of this draft variation to the Territory Plan, but we are entitled to ask why it has taken so long for this draft variation to be presented to the ACT Legislative Assembly and why the wider community must miss out on its opportunity to have formal input into this policy change. I urge you to support the motion.
Question resolved in the negative.
POSTPONEMENT OF NOTICE
MS SZUTY (11.53): Pursuant to standing order 128, I fix the next day of the sitting for moving the motion standing in my name on the notice paper relating to a reference to the Standing Committee on Planning, Development and Infrastructure.
SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Alteration to Terms of Reference
MRS GRASSBY (11.54): I move:
That the terms of reference of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation agreed to by the Assembly on 27 March 1992 be amended by:
(1) adding the following new subparagraph:
"2(e) or the explanatory statement accompanying it meets the technical or stylistic standards to which such an instrument or explanatory statement ought, in the opinion of the Committee, to conform;"; and
(2) adding the following new subparagraph:
"3(f) or the explanatory statement accompanying it meets the technical or stylistic standards to which such an instrument or explanatory statement ought, in the opinion of the Committee, to conform;".
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