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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 10 Hansard (5 September) . . Page.. 3209 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

other commencement clauses in private members Bills, or of anybody using them in private members Bills, that require gazettal. Forget about gazettal. You do not need that anymore. From now on, if this goes through, all legislation that I deal with will have a commencement date on it and we can eliminate - - -

Mr Humphries: It still has to be gazetted, Michael.

MR MOORE: No, the Act will start. This says - - -

Mr Humphries: It still has to be gazetted to start.

MR MOORE: This Bill says:

This Act commences, or shall be taken to have commenced, on 9 September 1996.

Whether it is gazetted or not is the implication, and that is - - -

Mr Humphries: I am trying to tell you something.

MR MOORE: No, no; you will have your turn. You control that man, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries, you will get your turn later to explain why I am wrong, because we have not had time to consider that. You are trying to interject, saying to us, "Oh, no, Michael, that is not right. After all, you have had four hours - - -

MR SPEAKER: Mr Moore, I cannot control Mr Humphries if you keep provoking him. Address the Chair.

MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr Humphries will say, "Oh, it is all right, Mr Moore; you have had four hours to consider this. You should know the full ramifications of this". The Greens, of course, will support him. Lucy Horodny sits there with a smug smile on her face. But at least she is here for the debate. Ms Tucker only comes down for the votes. That is all she is good for. She does not want to listen to the debate. She does not want to know anything about the legislation. She just wants to appear for the votes and do what she is told.

Ms Horodny: Mr Osborne is not here either.

MR MOORE: Ms Horodny interjects, "Mr Osborne is not here either". Why would he bother? Why would he bother, Ms Horodny? You are sitting there, along with those Liberals when they happen to attend. Let me tell you, Mr Speaker, that they are not here. Mr Humphries just made it back in here before I sought leave of the Assembly to dispose of this matter forthwith. Let me tell you, Mr Speaker, that I would have done it and we would not have had this debate. We finally got Mr Humphries back into the chamber, Mr Speaker.

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