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Clause 28
MR MOORE (4.58): I move:
Page 12, line 33, proposed new section 282C, after proposed new subsection 282C(4), insert the following subsections:
"(5) An instrument under subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument for the purposes of section 10 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.
"(6) Paragraph 6(1)(c) and subsections 6(7), (7A) and (7B) of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989 apply to an instrument under subsection (1) as if a reference in each of those provisions to 15 sitting days were a reference to 6 sitting days.".
Madam Speaker, I draw attention to the change in this amendment which makes the appointment of members a disallowable instrument, but changes the normal 15 sitting days to six sitting days. That would mean that it goes across two sitting sessions, according to our current system. I hope that that is appropriate for members.
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.58): Madam Speaker, I am not absolutely convinced about this amendment, as I think Mr Moore understands. However, I have every confidence that the names I ultimately present will be accepted readily. On another occasion we probably will have a fuller debate about this procedure. Mr Moore has indicated that at some stage or other, perhaps in three or four or five years' time, if he is still here, he will bring down a Bill somewhat related to this.
Mr Moore: No; I suggest that it might be the next sitting, Minister. The next sitting, I suspect.
MR WOOD: I might add that this presents me with an immediate problem. Mr Moore or Mr Lamont - I think it was one of them - indicated how rapidly we had moved to adopt the PDI Committee's report and to bring in this legislation. We have been moving during that time to find the members of the appeals board, and that takes a deal of time. It means now, if we go through all procedures, that it will be 9 December before we can have those names finally approved. I may come back to members and see how best we might facilitate that, if there is agreement. There may be something we can do to see that that is expedited, without getting away at all from the spirit of the amendment.
Amendment agreed to.
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