Page 1288 - Week 05 - Thursday, 25 June 1992
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Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
Sitting suspended from 12.20 to 2.30 pm
QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE
Statement of Financial Transactions
MR KAINE: I address a question to the Chief Minister and Treasurer. I draw the Chief Minister's attention to section 70 of the Audit Act, which requires the responsible Minister to publish each quarter a statement of financial transactions containing financial information with respect to receipts and expenditure of the Territory public account during the quarter and financial transactions showing, among other things, the manner in which the surplus for that quarter was applied or the deficit financed, and the like. Has the Chief Minister published such statements for the quarters ended December last year and March this year? If not, why not, and is she not in contravention of her own Audit Act?
MS FOLLETT: Yes, I have published that statement.
MR KAINE: I ask a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. If such reports have been published, why have they not been tabled in this Assembly?
MS FOLLETT: I am not certain that they are required to be tabled in this Assembly, but they have indeed been published.
Dog Control
MS ELLIS: My question is directed to the Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning. In an article in yesterday's Canberra Times on the new dog control legislation, reference was made to the need for dog owners to comply with a two- and nine-metre rule. Can the Minister clarify whether all dog owners are subject to this rule?
MR WOOD: I was pleased to see that article in the Canberra Times. It is certainly the case that news about dogs is news. In recent times, the media generally have taken up the issue of dogs and dog control and savage dogs, and any publicity we can get for the new dog control legislation is most welcome. Therefore, I was very pleased to see that article in the Canberra Times the other day. It was a very useful article, might I say.
I would, however, elaborate on one point because I do not think it was as clear as it might have been. The two- and nine-metre rule applies only to keepers of four dogs or more; that is, if you have four dogs or more you need to have approval for that and you need appropriate conditions in the yard. There must be a
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