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agreement to ensuring that for three years after 1 July existing mobility arrangements be offered to ACTEW employees. I would like to read from a letter from Mr Johns to Mrs Carnell, received on 19 June - only yesterday - which is why we needed to move this amendment. The letter stated:

Dear Chief Minister

Your letter of 30 May sought my assistance in extending the current reciprocal mobility arrangements between the ACT Government Service ... and the APS to members of the ACT Electricity and Water Authority ... when it is corporatised on 1 July 1995.

Mr Johns was perhaps pre-empting the vote of this Assembly. He continued:

I have considered your proposal, taking into account both the overall purpose of reciprocal mobility arrangements in facilitating movement between similar public sector organisations and the current entitlements of ACTEW staff employed under the Public Sector Management Act ... I am agreeable to an arrangement which would maintain the current reciprocal provisions for existing officers of the ACTEW at the date of corporatisation, for a period of three years from that date. I understand that our officers have been in contact in regard to the legislative arrangements which would be necessary to effect this.

Yours sincerely,

Gary Johns.

Once again, that proves our commitment to making sure that people working at ACTEW lose none of their entitlements from 1 July 1995. I commend the amendment to the house.

Amendment agreed to.

MR DE DOMENICO (Minister for Urban Services) (11.37), by leave: I move:

Page 7, line 9, insert the following item:

“After section 115 -

Insert the following section:

Mobility rights of certain persons

‘115A. (1) Notwithstanding subsection 7(2) of the Electricity and Water (Corporatisation) (Consequential Provisions) Act 1995, the following provisions have effect in relation to employees of the Company.

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