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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (2 December) . . Page.. 4394 ..

Amendment (by Mrs Carnell, by leave) proposed:

Page 4, line 10, proposed subsection 12A(3), omit the subsection.

MR BERRY (Leader of the Opposition) (11.27): This is, again, to rule out the requirement to include budget estimates for each of the next three financial years.

Mrs Carnell: No, that is not what it is.

MR BERRY: That is what it does. It seeks to knock it out. It seeks to omit the proposed subsection. The proposed subsection reads:

A proposed budget shall include budget estimates for each of the next 3 financial years.

It should not be supported.

Amendment negatived.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 9

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (11.28): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 4, line 15, proposed section 25A, omit the section, substitute the following section:

"Quarterly departmental performance reports

`25A. (1) A Minister shall within 30 days after the end of each quarter of a financial year, prepare a quarterly performance report for each department for which he or she is responsible.

`(2) A Minister shall, on the first sitting day after a report referred to in subsection (1) has been prepared, cause the report to be laid before the Legislative Assembly.

`(3) Where the first sitting day referred to in subsection (2) does not fall within 30 days after the end of the relevant quarter, a Minister shall cause a copy of a report prepared under subsection (1) to be made available to members of the Legislative Assembly within those 30 days.

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