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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 12 Hansard (20 November) . . Page.. 3915 ..

Debate resumed from 19 November 1996, on motion by Mr Humphries:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MS McRAE (4.43): Mr Speaker, the Opposition will be supporting this Bill. It is a process of adjustment to close a loophole. It relates to a section of the Act that will be further reviewed under the Land (Planning and Environment) (Amendment) Bill (No. 4) and so be able to be further scrutinised in a very short time. I think it is a loophole that needs to be closed, and this proposed legislative change will ensure that.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.43), in reply: Mr Speaker, I thank the Opposition for their support. I understand Mr Moore also supports the legislation. He was saying so to me before. I hope that dealing with this anomaly will result in our maximising the appropriate returns to government.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Leave granted to dispense with the detail stage.

Bill agreed to.

Debate resumed from 29 August 1996, on motion by Mr Humphries:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MS FOLLETT (4.44): Mr Speaker, the Opposition will be supporting this amendment Bill brought forward by Mr Humphries. The Public Trustee performs very important functions in our community, and often it is the Office of the Public Trustee which looks after the affairs of people who do not have a great deal of access to, say, private solicitors or trustee companies and so on. The Office of the Public Trustee is one which must operate with the maximum amount of community confidence. Some extremely sensitive matters are dealt with. The Public Trustee performs tasks such as preparing wills, acting as executor of estates and acting as a trustee of moneys which are awarded by the courts to people who are still minors or to people who have a disability. Clearly, it is an office requiring the highest degree of probity and community confidence.

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