Page 4554 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 6 December 1994
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Mr Moore: And a specific example.
MR WOOD: Yes. As to the second part of your question - and I am unsure about dates; there is some uncertainty about them; I will want to confirm this also - my advice is that that period has not expired. My advice is that on 27 November this year the lessee was asked to provide additional information. Regulation 22 under the Land (Planning and Environment) Act provides for the time taken to supply the information to be added to the prescribed period; to be added for the approval of the application. I have some more detail to provide to Mr Moore later.
MR MOORE: I have a supplementary question, Madam Speaker. The application for design and siting approval is ticked to indicate that there is no lease variation required. That is how the application has been made. Can the Minister assure this house that no application for residential use that is inconsistent with the lease will be approved, as is the current situation? Will the Minister assure the house that he will support the granting of an order by the registrar to ensure compliance with the current lease, given that, from the application, there is apparently no intention to vary the lease?
MR WOOD: Madam Speaker, I can assure Mr Moore that we will see that all processes in this area, as always, are fully followed. He has some detail there, and I will come back to him on that. I give him the assurance that we will go through those processes most properly.
Ms Follett: I ask that further questions be placed on the notice paper, Madam Speaker.
DRUGS OF DEPENDENCE (AMENDMENT) BILL 1994
Suspension of Standing and Temporary Orders
MS FOLLETT (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.24): I move:
That so much of the standing and temporary orders be suspended as would prevent a motion being moved to rescind the resolution of the Assembly of 30 November 1994 relating to the agreement of the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill 1994, as amended, and to reconsider clause 5 of the Bill in the detail stage forthwith.
I would like, at the outset, to spend a moment on the status of the Drugs of Dependence (Amendment) Bill. I remind members that that amendment is not yet enacted. It is not yet gazetted, so the Bill has not been passed into law. I want to make it clear that this is the normal course of events and that the normal timetable and procedures are being adhered to. I have never refused or delayed, and would never refuse or delay, the enactment of a law that has been properly passed by this Assembly. There are only two courses of action possible at this stage in the life of this piece of legislation. Those are, first of all, enactment and gazettal, or, secondly, rescission. At this stage, amendment is not possible until we have gone through the process of rescission. All members who have had second thoughts about this legislation would therefore need to vote to rescind if they wished to do anything further with it. We have moved this way as a government for reasons which, I think, have been fairly widely canvassed.
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