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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 1 Hansard (22 February) . . Page.. 284 ..
The Program provides an overview of the legislation the Government intends to introduce into the Assembly in the first half of this year.
In order to reflect the Government's commitment to having an achievable and focused Legislation Program, we have considered it timely to modernise the organisation of the Program.
The Program will still contain two main sections, to be referred to as Category One and Category Two.
Category One consists of those legislative initiatives which have been accorded the highest priority for political, legal, financial or administrative reasons by the Government.
It is intended that as many as possible of these initiatives be introduced and, hopefully, passed by the Assembly before the end of the Autumn sitting.
Category Two consists of those items that the Government envisages will be introduced into the Assembly during the Autumn sitting.
Members will be aware that, apart from providing information to the Assembly about forthcoming proposals, the Legislation Program also assists the Public Service with progressing longer term legislation proposals, and also provides guidance to the Parliamentary Counsel's Office in organising its resources.
In this context, the Government has added another category, Category Three, as an adjunct to the Program.
Category Three items are proposals for which business planning has commenced but underlying policy has yet to be settled.
Category Three will be used for internal planning purposes.
This will assist the Parliamentary Counsel's Office in organising competing priorities on drafting resources including the drafting of Bills for non-Executive Members.
As members would be aware, there are a large number of routine amendments being developed and researched at any given time.
These proposals represent very much preliminary work.
And, whilst I am happy to share these with members, you would appreciate that these projects are not appropriate to be part of the Legislation Program which should focus on outcomes for the Autumn session.
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