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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (6 November) . . Page.. 3712 ..

MR WHITECROSS (12.19): Mr Speaker, the Labor Party will be supporting the amendment.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 17 agreed to.

Proposed new clause 17A

Amendment (by Ms Tucker) agreed to:

Page 9, line 19, after clause 17, insert the following clause:

"Draft reports

17A. (1) Before giving the referring authority a final report into an investigation, the Commission shall cause to be published in the Gazette, and in a daily newspaper circulating in the Territory, a notice -

(a) stating that copies of a draft report into the investigation are available for public inspection and purchase during a specified period of not less than 20 working days at specified places; and

(b) inviting interested persons to submit written comments about the draft report to the Commission at a specified address and within a specified period of not less than 20 working days.

(2) The Commission shall make copies of a draft report into an investigation, including any draft price direction, available for public inspection and purchase during office hours during the period, and at the places, specified in the notice.

(3) In preparing its final report of an investigation, the Commission shall take into consideration any written comments submitted pursuant to the invitation in subsection (1) in relation to the draft report of the investigation.

(4) In this section -

`working day' means a day other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a public holiday.".

Clauses 18 and 19, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

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