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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1510 ..


PATIENT ACTIVITY DATA
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MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General): For the information of members, I present information bulletins relating to patient activity data for Calvary Public Hospital and the Canberra Hospital for February and March 1997.

SUBORDINATE LEGISLATION
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MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General): Pursuant to section 6 of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, I present subordinate legislation in accordance with the schedule of gazettal notices for specified trading hours.

The schedule read as follows:

Trading Hours Act -

Specified trading hours of large supermarkets on Thursday, 24 April 1997 - No. 66 of 1997 (S98, dated 17 April 1997).

Specified trading hours of large supermarkets - No. 75 of 1997 (S132, dated 8 May 1997).

TOTALCARE INCINERATOR REPORT
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MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning): I present the Totalcare incinerator report for the period 14 April 1997 to 13 May 1997. I ask for leave to make a statement in relation to the Totalcare incinerator report.

Leave granted.

MR HUMPHRIES: Yesterday I advised the Assembly that I would table today a report prepared by the Pollution Control Authority using data provided by Totalcare Industries on the operation of the Totalcare incinerator during the last month. In doing this, I am complying with the commitments I made in answering a question from Mr Osborne on 9 April. In tabling these figures, I can confirm that no pesticides were incinerated during the month covered by this report.

The report, however, does indicate three what are described as anomalies in the operation of the incinerator, that is, times when the temperature of the incinerator fluctuates outside normal ranges. The Pollution Control Authority has informed me, first, that the nature of the waste being incinerated at the time and the temperatures involved are unlikely to have


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