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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (2 September) . . Page.. 2724 ..

MR MOORE (continuing):

I could count on one hand the number of times disallowance has been moved in this Assembly, let alone disallowance using the power to amend a particular section of subordinate legislation. It is an entirely appropriate power for an Assembly to have. It has not been used excessively. It is unlikely to be used excessively. If there does appear to be a growing trend to move disallowance, then we are likely to see much more care taken in the way subordinate legislation is prepared. Mr Speaker, I commend my amendments to the Assembly.

MR KAINE (Minister for Urban Services and Minister for Industrial Relations) (11.25): Mr Speaker, as I indicated in the in-principle debate, I do not have any enormous difficulty with these three of Mr Moore's amendments. I do not know that they add anything to the Bill. They certainly do not detract from the Bill, except in so far as there is the potential for all of these instruments to increase our workload. I do not know how many there are likely to be. It may be that there will not be a lot of determinations. So, perhaps at the end of the day Mr Moore's argument is a valid one. We do not have any particular difficulty with these three amendments. Obviously, I would prefer the Government's Bill to go through in its original form. It was not put together without logic and reason. I believe that the best outcome would be for the Government's Bill to be adopted; but, of course, it really is up to the Assembly to vote on that.

Amendments agreed to.

MR MOORE (11.27): I seek leave to move amendment No. 3 circulated in my name.

Leave granted.

MR MOORE: I move:

Page 2, lines 31 and 32, and page 3, lines 1 to 6, clause 5, proposed subsections 7(3) and 7(4), omit the proposed subsections.

Debate (on motion by Mr Corbell) adjourned.

Debate resumed from 26 June 1997, on motion by Mr Humphries:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

MR MOORE (11.28): Mr Speaker, the Law Reform (Repeal of Laws) Bill is not a particularly outstanding Bill. The idea of the Bill is simply to deal with pieces of legislation that are left over from a body of New South Wales legislation that has applied to the ACT from 1909 and 1910. The Minister, in tabling this Bill, drew our attention to some 550 private Acts made in New South Wales between 1832 and 1910. He said that private Acts have particular application to a person or a group such as a public company or a local authority and do not have general application.

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