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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 5 Hansard (5 May) . . Page.. 1418 ..

MR BERRY (continuing):

sort. It seems to me that it should be left at this point. At some point in the future, Mr Stefaniak, the industry might come back to me and say, "No, that is the sort of qualification we want", but I do not think they will.

Question put:

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 8  	 NOES, 7

Mr Cornwell  	Mr Berry
Mr Hird  	Mr Corbell
Mr Humphries  	Mr Hargreaves
Mr Moore  	Mr Kaine
Mr Osborne  	Mr Stanhope
Mr Rugendyke  	Ms Tucker
Mr Smyth  	Mr Wood
Mr Stefaniak





Question so resolved in the affirmative.


MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education) (6.14):  Mr Speaker, I hope this amendment is one of the ones that are agreed to.  Surely Mr Berry will like this one.  I move:




Page 7, line 20, clause 19, subclause (4), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclause:




"(4)  The project owner shall not cause work to which this section applies to be carried out unless the provisional levy in respect of the work has been paid to the authority.".







MR BERRY (6.15):  Mr Speaker, the amendment talks about the authority.  Amendment No. 9 to clause 19, if that is the one we are talking about, reads:




  omit the subclause, substitute the following subclause:




"(4)   The project owner shall not cause work to which this section applies to be carried out unless the provisional levy in respect of the work has been paid to the authority.".







An "authority" is not something that has been agreed to.  "Board" is the language that we have agreed to.


Mr Stefaniak:  That is fair enough.  I accept that.


MR BERRY:  I do not have any particular difficulty with the language, but if you have a look at the existing clause it says:


 





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