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POSTPONEMENT OF ORDERS OF THE DAY
MR BERRY (Deputy Chief Minister) (11.11), by leave: Madam Speaker, I move:
That orders of the day Nos 1 to 10, executive business, be postponed until a later hour this day.
This motion will enable consideration of the Bail (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1992 to take precedence over all other executive business orders of the day. It will not affect the presentation of Bills or the consideration of Assembly business.
MR HUMPHRIES (11.12): Madam Speaker, the Opposition will support this motion. It will result in a Bill which was presented in the Assembly on Tuesday coming forward for debate in the Assembly today. That is a very short timeframe in which to consider it. It is something which we will be very reluctant to see happen very often, but we acknowledge that a very serious problem with the Bail Act has been identified for the last week or week-and-a-half. In the circumstances we think it is appropriate that steps be taken to rectify that problem as quickly as possible. At the present time I understand that the police are, in effect, charging people who breach domestic violence orders with assault. That is an interim measure and obviously it is not very satisfactory. I think that the sooner we deal with that problem the better. We support this motion for that reason.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
PAYROLL TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1992
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (11.13): Madam Speaker, I present the Payroll Tax (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MS FOLLETT: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, the Payroll Tax Act 1987 provides for the imposition of payroll tax on ACT employers where the Australia-wide wages of the employer or group of employers exceed the tax-free threshold - $500,000 for the current financial year. In my 1991-92 budget speech I announced that the Government had accepted the recommendations of a joint ACT Treasury-Australian Information Industry Association report on the adverse impact of payroll tax on the computer industry. I gave a commitment that the industry, and employment agents generally, would be given the same tax exemptions available to other employers in relation to services provided by independent contractors.
The Payroll Tax (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1992 gives effect to my commitment in that employment agents will be given exemption from the payment of payroll tax, similar to those available under section 3B of the Payroll Tax Act to other employers, in respect of payments which they make to independent contractors engaged through agency arrangements. As these commitments were given in the context of the 1991-92 budget, it is proposed that the date of effect for these
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