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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 13 Hansard (3 December) . . Page.. 4528 ..

MR MOORE: Mr Speaker, under standing order 47, I seek to explain where I have been misunderstood.

MR SPEAKER: Permission is granted.

MR MOORE: Thank you, Mr Speaker. I do not seek to debate the matter that Mr Whitecross raises. Where a submission is made to a committee, there is no binding of the committee to the person who has made the submission. In the same way, the Licensed Clubs Association made a submission to me in the form of draft legislation on which they worked with Parliamentary Counsel. I had not made this clear in introducing the legislation, and I have to do that. In fact, in the end it was Parliamentary Counsel - - -

Mr Whitecross: The Licensed Clubs Association or the Hotels Association?

MR MOORE: I apologise; the Australian Hotels Association. They did have a role, as I said in that introductory speech, in preparing the legislation; but in the same way as a submission is put to any member. As far as that goes, I see no conflict of interest whatsoever.

Question put:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 1			 NOES, 14

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

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