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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4742 ..

MR MOORE (5.32): Mr Speaker, as a participant in the round table discussion, I think the outcome shows that that is a very effective way of working. None of us going into that discussion had any idea that that would be the outcome. It was a quite lateral solution that came out of goodwill. I think that, where possible, we should operate as a 17-member Assembly.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Debate resumed from 10 December 1996, on motion by Mr Humphries:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General) (5.33): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 1, lines 6 to 8, clause 2, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:

"Commencement

2. (1) Sections 1, 2 and 3 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.

(2) The remaining provisions commence on the day on which section 4 of the Remand Centres (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1996 commences.".

I also present the explanatory memorandum for the amendment. Very briefly, the amendment simply aligns the commencement procedures with the Remand Centres (Amendment) Bill (No. 2), which we have just passed.

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