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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 11 Hansard (6 November) . . Page.. 3757 ..

MR WHITECROSS: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to explain words under standing order 47.

MR SPEAKER: Proceed.

MR WHITECROSS: Thank you, Mr Speaker. Mr Kaine, in his reply, appeared to think that I had misinterpreted words when I referred to the Government's timetable, believing that I was actually referring to the timetable set down in the national competition agreement. In fact, I was referring to the timetable that the Government has repeatedly circulated, and it was that timetable that I was saying the officials were complaining was in trouble, not any timetable set down under the national competition agreement. If Mr Kaine wants to produce evidence that he is obliged by the national competition agreement to comply with the department's timetable, he is welcome to do so. Finally, I seek leave to table the extract from the NECA annual report for 1996-97 which shows that other jurisdictions are not complying with the same timetable that Mr Kaine said was imposed by the national competition agreement.

Leave granted.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Detail Stage

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR SPEAKER: Mr Whitecross, I think you have to clarify something, do you not, in terms of your amendment?

MR WHITECROSS (4.51): Yes, Mr Speaker. I actually referred to this in the in-principle stage, Mr Speaker. I have circulated an amendment which affects subclause (2) of clause 39. I am not proceeding with that. I am proceeding with an amendment that I have circulated which proposes new subclauses 39(3) and 39(4). I move:

Page 17, line 15, clause 39, add the following subclauses:

"(3) An order under this section that declares -

(a) a specified person who uses less than 160 megawatt hours of electricity at one site during a year to be a non-franchise customer; or

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