Page 4629 - Week 15 - Tuesday, 6 December 1994
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MADAM SPEAKER: Mr Connolly, do you have a supplementary explanatory memorandum to present?
MR CONNOLLY (Attorney-General and Minister for Health) (10.22): I am sure that there is a supplementary explanatory memorandum which explains in great detail why we have done this. We have done it because of what the Scrutiny of Bills Committee did. Ms Szuty has a copy. Thank you very much. If the Scrutiny of Bills Committee ever miss a typographical error, we can rely on Ms Szuty to find it. I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the Bill.
Amendments agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole, and agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
RATES AND LAND TAX (AMENDMENT) BILL (NO. 3) 1994
Debate resumed from 1 December 1994, on motion by Ms Follett:
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR KAINE (10.23): Madam Speaker, this is a red-letter day for the Under Treasurer. This is a Treasury Bill which the Opposition supports without reservation. Of course, it is understandable that the Liberal Party in opposition would support this Bill, because it is Liberal Party policy. It is rather curious that only a matter of months ago the Chief Minister and Treasurer was fighting in the ditches over doing the thing that this Bill does. Then we had a very quick - - -
Mr De Domenico: Then they had a look at the polls.
MR KAINE: Yes, we had a look at the polls, and we had a very quick and superficial in-house inquiry into what we could do about the rates. The people doing the inquiry had a quick look at the Liberal Party policy to see what goodies we had in there and, lo and behold, we get a Bill that removes the penalties for non-payment of an instalment on your rates. Madam Speaker, I do not think there is any need for me to say any more. We support the Bill as being a case of the Government implementing Liberal Party policy, on which we commend them.
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