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aggressor but may have been merely defending himself from an attack by another. Madam Speaker, obviously the creation of a new law will not be the whole answer to the problems of violence in Civic and other places of public resort. This amendment is very much a first and immediate step in a longer and more structured process of improving the safety and amenity of our city.
In the 1992-93 budget we announced our intention to proceed to establish a Crime Prevention Council and to develop long-term and substantive crime prevention strategies. I and my officers have met with the AFP and traders in Civic to discuss the problems and possible solutions, which I found very useful, and I have asked my officers to examine the problems that were raised and come back to me with an integrated and strategic plan to deal with the many facets of the issue, including policing strategies, improvement of the physical environment, and the regulation of the sale and consumption of alcohol. I commend the Bill to members of the Assembly and, Madam Speaker, I present an explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
STATUTE LAW REVISION (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS)
BILL (NO. 2) 1992
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (11.29): Madam Speaker, I present the Statute Law Revision (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (No. 2) 1992.
Title read by Clerk.
MR CONNOLLY: I move:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
Madam Speaker, the Statute Law Revision (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill (No. 2) 1992 makes corrections and technical changes to a number of ACT Acts. It also repeals a number of spent or redundant Acts. This Bill is the second in what will be a continuing series of statute law revision Bills prepared for the purpose of updating and improving the expression of Territory legislation.
The Bill does not change the substance of the law; it makes technical corrections only. It is a housekeeping exercise to bring the language of Territory legislation up to date and remove formal errors from the statutes of the Territory. The Government is committed to improving accessibility to legislation, and the modernisation of the language of legislation which is achieved by these amendments will further improve the ACT community's access to the law. The nature and purpose of many of the amendments is self-evident.
Broadly, the amendments make the following changes to the Acts dealt with in this Bill: First, typographical or transcription errors, resulting in misspelling or grammatical mistakes, or incorrect numbering of provisions, are corrected by the Bill. Secondly, the Bill amends ACT legislation to reflect modern legislative drafting practice by, for example, removing words which only complicate the text
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