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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 10 Hansard (5 September) . . Page.. 3187 ..

MR WHITECROSS (continuing):

vast majority of the community do not want and that is unlikely to produce any benefits for the small business people they pretend to be helping. They have produced not one single jot of evidence that it will help the small business people for whom they claim to be working.

These people who claim to have some reverence for the committee process, who said in their election platform what a great thing the committee process was and who earlier this year brought into the chamber a reprehensible document about governing Canberra, are once again trumpeting the benefits of the committee process. Yet when they had the opportunity to put this to a committee, when they had the opportunity to get input from the community and to think through properly the drafting of this legislation and the implications of this legislation, they chose instead to ram it through. Now we are being asked once again - - -

MR SPEAKER: Order! The time for the debate has concluded.

Question put:

That the motion (Mr Humphries's) be agreed to.

A vote having been called for and the bells having been rung -

Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. I wonder whether you could read the question upon which we are going to vote, so that I am very clear as to the exact standing orders we are suspending in order to bring on this legislation. There is a motion to suspend standing orders. Is that a motion to suspend all the standing orders, or is it a motion to suspend so much of standing orders as would not allow us to consider this matter?

MR SPEAKER: Mr Humphries moved that "so much of" standing orders be suspended. The question is: That the motion to suspend standing orders to call on the order of the day, Executive business, relating to the Trading Hours (Amendment) Bill 1996 be agreed to.

Mr Moore: I raise a point of order, Mr Speaker. Under standing order 6, I was asking you to read the full motion upon which we are about to vote.

MR SPEAKER: Very well. Mr Humphries moved: That so much of standing orders be suspended as would prevent the order of the day, Executive business, relating to the Trading Hours (Amendment) Bill 1996 being called on forthwith. Is that clear?

Mr Moore: Thank you, Mr Speaker.

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