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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 5 Hansard (15 May) . . Page.. 1534 ..

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (5.12): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move together amendments 1 to 5 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MRS CARNELL: I move:

Page 14, line 18, subclause (1), add the following definition:

" `unemployed person' means a person who has been, for a period of not less than 12 months -

(a) registered as unemployed with the Commonwealth Employment Service; and

(b) receiving an allowance in respect of unemployment under the Social Security Act 1991 of the Commonwealth;

disregarding any period not exceeding, or periods in the aggregate not exceeding, 4 weeks during which the person was not so registered or was not receiving such an allowance.".

Page 14, line 19, subclause (2), omit "may, within 3 months", substitute "or an unemployed person, who is a resident of the Territory may, within 12 months".

Page 14, line 22, subclause (3), omit "3", substitute "12".

Page 15, line 1, subclause (9), after "pensioner" insert "or an unemployed person".

Page 15, line 7, subclause (10), after "pensioner" insert "or an unemployed person".

I think we have already had the debate on these amendments. Hopefully, the majority will support them. I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the Bill.

Amendments agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Remainder of Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR WHITECROSS (Leader of the Opposition) (5.13): Mr Speaker, I will not be moving the remaining amendments circulated in my name, because they are all consequential. I did want to raise one matter which I raised with officials in a briefing some time ago but which does not seem to have materialised in amendments.

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