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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (4 September) . . Page.. 2989 ..

MS TUCKER (8.13): I just want to clarify something. Mr Berry seemed to be under the impression that I believed that this legislation would mean that members of clubs would suffer and that resources would be taken from club membership, which Mrs Carnell has just explained will not be the case. It is my absolute understanding, and I want to make it quite clear, that what this legislation is doing is providing information, for all the reasons I outlined before. For the reasons Mrs Carnell has just articulated, I think it is important. I do not believe this is going to have an impact on the members of clubs. If it is, something must be going on that should not be going on. It is perfectly legitimate for clubs to support their members in whatever way they like, and it is none of our business if they want to do that. However, if those clubs are also claiming very loudly - and they have done that ever since I became interested in this - that they do great community good and work, then why can they not show us?

Question put:

That the amendments (Mr Berry's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

	AYES, 6	 	NOES, 10

	Mr Berry	Mrs Carnell
	Mr Corbell	Mr Cornwell
	Ms McRae	Mr Hird
	Ms Reilly	Ms Horodny
	Mr Whitecross	Mr Humphries
	Mr Wood		Mr Kaine
			Mrs Littlewood
			Mr Moore
			Mr Stefaniak
			Ms Tucker

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (8.18): I move:

Page 5, line 10, clause 9, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:

"Audit of records

9. Section 56 of the Principal Act is amended by omitting from paragraph (1)(b) all the words after `statement' and substituting `for that year relating to the financial operations of the licensee'.".

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