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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 9 Hansard (2 September) . . Page.. 2866 ..

travel by Ministers on such executive business is most unlikely to result in the vacation of office of the member under paragraph 14(1)(c) of the ACT Self Government Act.

The GSO advised that his proposition is supported by the decision of the Full Federal Court which held that payments to Ministers for services as members of the executive did not breach the counterpart provision of the Norfolk Island Self Government Act.

The operation of paragraph 14(1)(c) depends on the existence of specific circumstances where a member takes or agrees to take a benefit for services to be rendered in the Assembly. Such circumstances do not exist in this case.

The advice I have received on this is tabled.

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