Page 3378 - Week 13 - Tuesday, 24 November 1992
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Clause 20
MR HUMPHRIES (9.23): Madam Speaker, I move:
Page 6, line 32, add at the end the following subclause:
"(2) Before a person is appointed as the Electoral Commissioner, the Chief Minister shall consult -
(a) the leader of each political party represented in the Legislative Assembly; and
(b) all members of the Legislative Assembly who are not also members of such a party;
about the proposed appointment.".
I am not going to proceed with the first part of my circulated amendment. I think that for the reasons I have already outlined we should agree to this subclause.
Amendment agreed to.
MR MOORE (9.24): I think that this is the appropriate time for me to move my amendment No. 2. I move:
Page 6, line 32, add the following subclause:
"(2) An instrument of appointment is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.".
This relates to a disallowable instrument and is similar to the amendment to clause 11.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 22
MR HUMPHRIES (9.25): Madam Speaker, I move:
Page 7, line 7, add the following subclause:
"(4) The Electoral Commissioner may hold any other office that is compatible with the performance of his or her functions as Electoral Commissioner.".
Madam Speaker, this amendment is designed to pick up some of the concerns that Mr Stevenson has raised in this Assembly tonight. I might indicate, as Mr Kaine indicated, that in an ideal world we would certainly like to look again at the arrangements the Government seeks to put in place here for the conduct of ACT elections. It is undoubtedly the case that one would assume at first blush that the Australian Electoral Commission has a considerably greater body of expertise and experience in the conduct of elections than we might find in any body which is established under an ACT enactment. It would therefore appear to
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