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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (2 December) . . Page.. 4379 ..

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.27): "Budget-funded" is not an ABS definition. I think the round table conference agreed with that approach. The Government amendments reflect the intent, I think, of the round table discussions that were held on this issue. The reality is that "budget-funded" is just not an ABS definition.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (10.28): That means that all the other proposals you have which are not ABS definitions you will ditch, one suspects. It seems to me to be a reasonable interpretation that ought to appear in the legislation. I do not see any difficulty with it. The argument that you have put is quite inadequate and would not cause me to back away from our intention to ensure that that particular interpretation is included in the legislation. It is, of course, one that was discussed, as you have said, in the round table conference; but reports that have come to me suggest that there was no agreement that it ought to be deleted.

Question put:

That the amendment (Mrs Carnell's) be agreed to.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 10	 NOES, 6

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

Amendment (by Mr Berry) proposed:

Page 2, line 7, definition of "General Government Sector", omit the definition, substitute the following definition:

" `General Government Sector' means those organisations whose primary function is to provide services which are mainly not market orientated, are mainly for the consumption of the community generally, involve the transfer or redistribution of income, and are financed mainly through appropriation;".

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