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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1995 Week 11 Hansard (14 December) . . Page.. 3120 ..

Durham Smith and Associates

(1) Application has been made through the Secretary to the Chief Minister to let a consultancy to facilitate strategic and change management programs within the Magistrates Court in preparation for the integration of all its current components in the one purpose built court complex.

(2) The cost of the consultancy has been quoted in the vicinity of $18,000.

(3) There are no such services available within the ACT Government Service. It is intended that the consultancy will carry out this work in conjunction with two officers of the ACT Magistrates Court.

(4) N/A.

Consumer Affairs Bureau

(1) The Ministerial Counsel of Consumer Affairs agreed that the cost of a consultancy involved in the Uniform Credit Code would be shared on a population basis.

(2) The cost of the Uniform Credit Code consultancy in respect of the amount paid by the Consumer Affairs Bureau was $405.00.

(3) N/A.

(4) N/A.

Australian Federal Police

(1) Market Attitude Research Services (MARS) was engaged to conduct a benchmark community survey to measure pre-existing attitudes of the community to policing services in the suburbs of Kaleen and Ainslie/Campbell; and to conduct further surveys to assess the impact of the Country Town policing initiatives in those two areas during the pilot Country Town policing program (October 1994-October 1995).

(2) Two payments of $9,520 were paid to Mr David Collins from MARS on 29 July 1994 and 5 April 1995. The final payment is expected to be made this financial year - it will be in the order of $4,760.

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