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However, there is currently no legislative provision to allow the Government to recover from the fund costs incurred by the Government in staffing the fund manager's position. Up to now these costs, though modest in themselves, have been borne as a charge on the budget and therefore by the general ACT community. It is appropriate that these staffing costs be recovered from the fund. The proposal is consistent with arrangements which currently exist with bodies like the Building and Construction Industry Long Service Leave Board under which staffing costs are recovered by the Government. The costs of running a scheme should be fully paid from funds raised to finance the scheme. This Bill will enable salary and other costs associated with staffing the position of fund manager to be recovered by the Territory Government. I commend the Bill to the Assembly and present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr De Domenico) adjourned.
PESTICIDES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (10.36): Madam Acting Speaker, I present the Pesticides (Amendment) Bill 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR WOOD: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
This Bill amends the Pesticides Act 1989 to overcome difficulties associated with the issue of notices about dealing with pesticides. Section 45 of the Act requires the Registrar of Pesticides to publish any notice about dealing with a pesticide in a daily newspaper on at least three occasions during a period of two consecutive weeks. Section 47(1) of the Act deals with the form of the notice issued by the registrar and requires the notice to specify each distinguishing name under which the pesticide is supplied and has been registered. At present there are 1,300 pesticides registered for use in the ACT. A general notice would need to list all of these pesticides and would be time consuming and extremely costly to publish.
The proposed Bill will amend the Pesticides Act 1989 to allow the registrar to issue notices in relation to dealing with pesticides in the ACT without incurring excessive costs. Specifically, the amendment will allow the registrar to publish a notice only once in the Gazette and the newspaper, and will allow notices about dealing with pesticides to simply specify the class or classes of pesticides, but will include the location and time at which a listing of each distinguishing name of the specified class or classes of pesticides may be inspected. The amendment will simplify the present onerous and unwieldy notification process, making it less costly while not reducing its effectiveness. Madam Speaker, I present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Westende) adjourned.
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