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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (8 April) . . Page.. 676 ..

Clause 23

MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services and Minister for Tourism) (12.22): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 8, line 9, add the following subclause:

"(8) The Minister shall, within 3 sitting days of a business plan coming into effect, cause a copy of the plan to be laid before the Legislative Assembly.".

The Bill requires a business plan to be developed within two months and it requires that business plan to be tabled in the Assembly. The Bill was silent on when the business plan should be tabled. This merely places an additional onus on me, as the Minister, in that within three sitting days of the business plan coming into effect I must cause a copy of that plan to be laid before the Assembly. It is a further addition to the accountability provisions.

MS TUCKER (12.23): We will be happy to support this, as we suggested it to Mr Kaine. We are delighted that he is prepared to incorporate this.

MR CORBELL (12.23): Mr Speaker, we will be supporting this amendment also.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 24

MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services and Minister for Tourism) (12.23): I move:

Page 8, line 35, add the following subclause:

"(7) If a business plan is modified in accordance with a proposal or a revised proposal, the Minister shall cause a copy of the proposal or revised proposal, as the case may be, to be laid before the Legislative Assembly with the next report given to him or her under subsection 28(1).".

Again, it is quite likely that, during the course of the business of the corporation, it will have occasion to modify its business plan, and some of those modifications could be of such significance as to require that the changes be made known to the Assembly. What this does, again, is require that the Minister shall table in the Assembly details of any business plan modification and that the Minister will do that at the next quarterly report following that change.

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