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Motion (by Mr Berry), by leave, agreed to:
That orders of the day, Nos 7 to 9, Executive business, relating to the Bookmakers (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1994, the Gaming and Betting (Amendment) Bill (No. 2) 1994, and the Games Wagers and Betting-houses (Amendment) Bill 1994, be postponed until a later hour this day.
DISCHARGE OF ORDERS OF THE DAY
Motion (by Mr Berry), by leave, agreed to:
That orders of the day, Nos 26, 35, 38 to 43, 46 and 47, Executive business, relating to the Report of the Ainslie Village Board of Inquiry, Auditor-General's Reports Nos 1 and 3 of 1993, the Ministerial Statement on a Natural Death with Dignity, Auditor-General's Reports No. 2 of 1993 and those relating to Information Technology Management Policies and Financial Audits with years ending 30 June 1991, and the Exposure Drafts of the Lands Acquisition Bill, the Coroners (Amendment) Bill, Mental Welfare and the Crimes (Amendment) Bill, respectively, be discharged from the notice paper.
CRIMINAL CODE - COMMONWEALTH BILL
Ministerial Statement and Paper
Debate resumed from 24 August 1994, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That the Assembly takes note of the papers.
MR HUMPHRIES (8.32): Mr Acting Speaker, the ministerial statement before us tonight is pregnant with significance for the ACT. It poses several significant questions to our Assembly and it represents another, I think, significant first in the development of self-government. In one sense, the statement, with the Bill attached to the statement, is an invitation to participate as legislators not just for the ACT but for the whole Australian nation. It is a radical departure not just from the criminal law-making approach we have adopted in this Territory in the past but also from the very way in which we have operated, generally, here as a parliament.
The Minister has tabled a Commonwealth Bill, the Criminal Code Bill 1994, which was tabled in the Senate, I think, in the middle of this year. Despite being expressed to be a codification of the general principles of criminal law as applied under Commonwealth enactments, this Commonwealth Bill may possibly quite soon be not just the law in respect of Commonwealth offences but indeed the law of the Territory, despite the fact that there is a clear indication in the Federal Constitution that States and, by extension,
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