Page 3347 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 24 November 1992
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DISCHARGE OF ORDER OF THE DAY
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services): Madam Speaker, I seek leave of the Assembly to move a motion concerning the discharge of order of the day No. 13, executive business.
Leave granted.
MR CONNOLLY: Madam Speaker, I move:
That order of the day No. 13, executive business, Prostitution Regulation - Paper - Motion to take note of paper, be discharged from the Notice Paper.
The reason for this is that last week in private members business the Assembly debated the recommendations of that paper and passed, with amendments, a Bill relating to prostitution. It is therefore appropriate that the motion to take note of the discussion paper no longer be before the Assembly and be discharged.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
BUILDINGS (DESIGN AND SITING) (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1992
Debate resumed from 18 November 1992, on motion by Mr Wood:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR KAINE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.32): Madam Speaker, the Liberal Party supports this Bill, which is consequential legislation to permit the exemption of minor building works from the regulatory processes currently in place in the ACT. We recently passed amendments to legislation to allow exemptions for minor work such as garden sheds, gazebos, greenhouses and garden walls and gnomes. Where those works are carried out on private property by competent persons, the Assembly agreed that the process of taking out building permits, submitting plans and inspections and the like was unnecessary. This amendment will enable the Government to put that into effect, and we agree with it entirely.
Madam Speaker, in our view, amendments which add to individual freedoms, as long as they have no community or social detriment, are desirable and we will support them. This amendment enables residents to pursue their private business and activities without the intrusion of government regulation and oversight - a most commendable outcome. I encourage the Minister and other Ministers to closely examine all legislation to identify other areas and additional freedoms that might be brought into being. The Liberals would support those, Madam Speaker, just as we support this one. We support this Bill without reservation.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.
Bill agreed to.
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