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SCRUTINY OF BILLS AND SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION -
STANDING COMMITTEE
Report and Statement
MRS GRASSBY: Madam Speaker, I present report No. 14 of 1994 of the Standing Committee on Scrutiny of Bills and Subordinate Legislation and I ask for leave to make a brief statement on the report.
Leave granted.
MRS GRASSBY: Madam Speaker, report No. 14 of 1994 contains the committee's comments on two Bills and 16 pieces of subordinate legislation and one Government response. I commend the report to the Assembly.
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS TRIBUNAL
(AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 2) 1994
[COGNATE BILLS:
INTERPRETATION (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
ADMINISTRATIVE APPEALS (CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS) BILL 1994]
Debate resumed from 16 June 1994, on motion by Mr Connolly:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MADAM SPEAKER: Is it the wish of the Assembly to debate this order of the day concurrently with the Interpretation (Amendment) Bill 1994 and the Administrative Appeals (Consequential Amendments) Bill 1994? There being no objection, that course will be followed. I remind members that, in debating order of the day No. 1, they may also address their remarks to orders of the day Nos 2 and 3.
MR HUMPHRIES (3.26): Madam Speaker, we have before the Assembly a package of three Bills which effect some mostly minor changes to the operation of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal in the ACT. The tribunal is now several years old in its ACT manifestation. It is a significant tribunal in that it deals with a great many, as the name implies, administrative decisions made by government in the ACT and gives citizens a less complicated right of access to a court to challenge or to question elements of decisions made that affect them than might have previously been available through the use of our courts.
Madam Speaker, the AAT is a body in which we all have an important interest and which we all, of course, need to see continue, and any measures which are designed to facilitate easier access by citizens of the Territory to that body deserve to be supported. Hence, today, the Opposition will be supporting the provisions of these three Bills.
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