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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4874 ..

MS TUCKER (continuing):

I have already spoken to this; but I would like to add support for what Simon Corbell just said as well. We have sought advice on this, and our advice also has been that the current scheme could quite easily deal with issues that an existing house would have that would make it different from a new house. Obviously, in a way, it would make for a more accurate rating, because when a rating is done on a new house in a new suburb, before any of the area around it has been developed, you can see that there are quite a number of unknowns that really cannot be factored into that rating. So, I think that that is really not a very convincing argument at all.

The other comment I would like to make is that we will be watching very carefully to see that any alternative rating scheme that is produced is at least of as high a standard as the existing one. If we get presented with some simple tick-a-box scheme, we will be seeking support from members here to reject that.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Proposed new clause 3A

MRS CARNELL (Chief Minister) (5.25): I am not sure that this is going to be terribly relevant at the moment; but I will move the amendment anyway. Mr Speaker, on behalf of Mr Humphries, I move:

Page 2, line 22, after clause 3, insert the following clause:

"Industry and environment impact statement

3A. (1) When a regulation made for the purposes of the definition of `energy efficiency rating statement' in section 3
is laid before the Legislative Assembly pursuant to paragraph 6(1)(c) of the Subordinate Laws Act 1989, the Minister shall cause to be laid before the Legislative Assembly an industry and environment impact statement.

(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), an industry and environment impact statement is a statement prepared by the Minister describing the likely costs and benefits of the energy efficiency rating statement to the real estate and housing industries and consumers generally.".

This amendment causes an industry and environment impact statement to be laid before the Assembly when the regulation making the energy efficiency rating statement is made. This will allow the Assembly to consider the cost and benefit implications from an industry, consumer and environmental point of view.

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