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SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, in the absence of Mrs Grassby, I present report No. 15 of 1992 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation, and I seek leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, report No. 15 contains the committee's comments on three Bills, one piece of subordinate legislation and one government response. I take the opportunity of mentioning that it is a brief report, and in many respects that tells a story. Over the three-and-a-half years or so that the Scrutiny of Bills Committee has operated, a very large number of matters have been raised for the attention of government. The fact that it is possible to look at this report and see very few matters raised is some indication of the progress that has been made by the existence of such an institution as the Scrutiny of Bills Committee.
For example, in this report we note, as a matter of substance, the fact that a determined attempt has been made in the Bill to amend the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) Act to remove the remaining sexist language from that Act, and that appears to have been done. That is one of the matters that the committee has traditionally dealt with. It has now been covered fairly comprehensively. It is an indication of the extent to which successive administrations have paid attention to the work of the committee and made a serious attempt to deal with the problems that it raises from time to time.
I say on behalf of the committee members that we are pleased with the response we have had from government, at least over the last few months. We believe that it is a good sign of the intention of the members of the administration that serve the Government to deal wholly and promptly with the concerns that are raised by our committee. I commend the report to the Assembly.
SUSPENSION OF STANDING AND TEMPORARY ORDERS
Motion (by Mr Berry) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent order of the day No. 1, Assembly business, relating to the Select Committee on Drugs interim report on Methadone Treatment Services in the ACT being called on forthwith.
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