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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (2 December) . . Page.. 4380 ..

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (10.34): Mr Speaker, I have an amendment to Mr Berry's amendment. I move:

Omit all words after "means", substitute the following:

" -

(a) 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; and

(b) those organisations that are controlled by the Territory and provide investment or other financial services;".

The issue here is the definition of "General Government Sector". We believe that the approach that we have taken is somewhat more comprehensive than the approach of Mr Berry's, although we believe that Mr Berry's definition of "public trading enterprise" is probably better than ours. We believe that our definition of "General Government Sector" is more comprehensive. It adds an extra element to Mr Berry's definition. I believe that it adds just that little bit extra. Again, as I have said, the next amendment that Mr Berry is to bring forward - the public trading enterprise amendment - is, we believe, probably the better.

Amendment (Mrs Carnell's) to Mr Berry's amendment agreed to.

Amendment (Mr Berry's), as amended, agreed to.

Amendment (by Mrs Carnell) agreed to:

Page 2, line 9, definition of "public sector", omit the definition.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (10.37): The next amendment relates to the definition of "public trading enterprise". The amendment circulated in my name is self-explanatory and results from discussions at the round table. I move:

Page 2, line 11, definition of "public trading enterprise", omit the definition, substitute the following definition:

" `public trading enterprise' means an organisation whose primary function is to provide goods and services which are mainly market orientated, non-regulatory and non-financial in nature and who recover a significant part of their costs from individual consumers;".

Amendment agreed to.

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