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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 7 Hansard (1 July) . . Page.. 2026 ..
Implementation Report
MS CARNELL (Chief Minister and Treasurer) (3.26): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the implementation report for November 1997 to November 1998 on the implementation of the recommendations of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Deaths in Custody. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Report on Environment Protection (Amendment) Bill 1998 - Exposure Draft - Government Response
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (3.27): Mr Speaker, for the information of members, I present the Government's response to Report No. 10 of the Standing Committee on Urban Services, entitled "Environment Protection (Amendment) Bill 1998 - Exposure draft", which was presented to the Assembly on 27 October 1998. I move:
That the Assembly takes note of the paper.
I seek leave to have the presentation speech incorporated in Hansard.
Leave granted.
The speech read as follows:
Mr Speaker
Members will recall that on 25 June 1998, the Assembly resolved to refer the exposure draft of the Environment Protection (Amendment) Bill 1998 to the Urban Services Committee. The Committee subsequently tabled its report on 27 October 1998.
The Government welcomes the Urban Services Committee Report and fully supports the general intent of the Report which seeks to clarify a number of aspects of the Policy and the Bill, in many cases by more closely aligning the Bill with the NSW Contaminated Land Management Act 1997 on which the exposure draft Bill was based. Overall the Bill, as modified in light of the Committee's recommendations and several other Government initiated changes will ensure a robust piece of legislation for the management of contaminated land in the ACT. The detail of the Government's response to the Committee's Report is set out in the formal response I am tabling today. However, I should just take a few moments to summarise the key elements of that response:
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