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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (11 December) . . Page.. 4765 ..

MR WHITECROSS (Leader of the Opposition) (7.06): Mr Moore suggested that the only trucks that are going to be affected by this are stock trucks and a couple of others. My understanding is that it is substantially more than that. The only way it could ever be anything like no trucks except stock trucks is if the registrar went absolutely berserk in granting exemptions, completely disregarding the consultation with adjoining leaseholders required under this provision. Let me put it on the record. If the registrar does go berserk and grants exemptions to everybody under the sun, then I will be coming back into this place, Mr Moore, presumably with your cooperation, to jump up and down about the way the Government is administering this. That will not be acceptable. The hypothetical situation that Mr Moore has raised - that this affects nobody else - can happen only if the registrar grants everyone an exemption. If that happens, I will be complaining too. My information is that about a third of trucks are affected by this. That is not no trucks. That is not insignificant. That is a lot of people inconvenienced.

Question put:

That the amendment (Ms Horodny's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 4	 		NOES, 13

Ms Horodny	Mr Berry	Mr Kaine
Mr Moore	Mrs Carnell	Ms McRae
Mr Osborne	Mr Cornwell	Ms Reilly
Ms Tucker	Mr De Domenico	Mr Stefaniak
		Ms Follett	Mr Whitecross
		Mr Hird		Mr Wood
		Mr Humphries

MR WHITECROSS (Leader of the Opposition) (7.09): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move amendment No. 2 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 11, lines 1 to 7, proposed section 150ZA, omit the section.

This amendment is consequential on the amendment already carried by the Assembly, and I commend it to the house.

Amendment agreed to.

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