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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1998 Week 9 Hansard (19 November) . . Page.. 2657 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General, Minister for Justice and Community Safety and Minister Assisting the Treasurer)(10.51): Mr Deputy Speaker, I present the Electoral (Amendment) Bill 1998, together with its explanatory memorandum.

Title read by Clerk.

MR HUMPHRIES: I move:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

This Bill provides for the Electoral Act 1992 to be amended so that a redistribution of electoral boundaries shall commence after the third Saturday in October two years before the next due date for an election rather than after the third Saturday in February two years and eight months before the next election. As the Electoral Act currently stands, a redistribution of electoral boundaries is due to commence after the third Saturday in February 1999. However, the Assembly Select Committee on the Report of the Review of Governance is currently considering the issue of changing the number of members elected to the Assembly. Any change to the number of members to be elected would change the redistribution criteria. This Bill will delay the commencement of the 1999 redistribution until October in order to give the Legislative Assembly time in which to consider the outcome of the select committee's deliberations.

This Bill will also bring the redistribution timetable into line with the new timetable for elections, with the next election due to be held on 20 October 2001 and elections thereafter to be held on the third Saturday in October every three years.

Debate (on motion by Mr Stanhope) adjourned.

MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (10.53): Mr Deputy Speaker, I present the Land (Planning and Environment) (Amendment) Bill 1998, together with its explanatory memorandum.

Title read by Clerk.

MR SMYTH: Mr Deputy Speaker, I move:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

The Land (Planning and Environment) (Amendment) Bill 1998 amends sections 184B and 187B of the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991 to extend the date of effect of those sections. Sections 184B and 187B are sunset clauses that effect the formula prescribed to calculate the change of use charge. The clauses were inserted into the legislation during the Assembly's 1996 debate on the major amendments to the Act.

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