Page 2790 - Week 09 - Thursday, 26 August 1993

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ADJOURNMENT

MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:

That the Assembly do now adjourn.

Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.

Question resolved in the negative.

EVIDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1993

Debate resumed.

MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, that was the conclusion of my remarks. The Liberal Party will support this Bill.

MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General, Minister for Housing and Community Services and Minister for Urban Services) (4.30), in reply: I thank Mr Humphries for his support. As he said, this Bill is fairly technical stuff. It is not earth-shattering legislative change at all. It is really setting the Evidence Act clearly on the footing of an ACT enactment. I can advise the Assembly and Mr Humphries that there is quite a lot of work being done between the New South Wales, Queensland and Commonwealth governments with a view to creating a uniform Evidence Act across the eastern States. That is an initiative that the ACT is playing some small part in and I would hope that before very long we may be in a position to be taking part in a substantial re-enactment of our Evidence Act. It currently bears quite striking similarities to the New South Wales Act, as Mr Humphries would know. We are part of a process for a uniform Evidence Act to apply in the Commonwealth and each of the eastern States' jurisdictions. This is laying the groundwork to the Evidence Act being clearly an ACT enactment with a view to some very substantial change to come in due course.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

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