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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1996 Week 14 Hansard (12 December) . . Page.. 4915 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

So, I suppose that I am urging members to suck it and see. If they feel that too many important changes are being effected by regulation, it is open to members to say, "No. We want this done by legislation in future so that no tinkering with the system can occur". But I think they will find, if they start at the other end of the spectrum and say, "It has to be done by legislation", that we will end up with a lot of amendment Bills every year dealing with what are essentially matters of finetuning.

Amendment negatived.

Clause agreed to.

Clauses 40 to 42, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

Clause 43

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (11.25): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 16, line 7, proposed section 184, omit "or leases".

This is a minor technical matter. I do not intend to speak to it.

Amendment agreed to.

MR MOORE (11.26): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 16, lines 18 and 19, proposed subsection 184A(1), omit ", subject to any remission or increase under section 184B".

I seek leave to speak to my amendments Nos 14 to 20 together. They are all to do with the issue of betterment, in one way or another, Mr Speaker.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE: Thank you, members. I think this is a sensible way to go.

Mr Speaker, on many occasions we have had a debate here about the betterment to be paid. To me, it is a fairly simple issue. Either the community gets its appropriate return from the leasehold system or it does not. It seems to me that the only way to achieve that is through 100 per cent betterment. I realise that there is a difference of opinion. Mr Speaker, if these amendments fail, I have a backup set of amendments which will say, "If you are going to insist on this, at least let us put a sunset clause on it". I think I have had an indication from the Labor Party that they would support the sunset clause.

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