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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (7 December) . . Page.. 3859 ..

(5) Section 12 of the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990 is repealed on the commencement of section 67.

(6) Section 13 of the Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990 is repealed on the commencement of section 79.

(7) The Taxation Administration Act 1999 is amended on the commencement of Division 3 of Part VI-

(a) by omitting paragraphs 4 (b), (c), (d) and (e) and substituting the following paragraphs:

'(b) the Debits Tax Act 1997;

(c) the Duties Act Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999;

(d) Division 3 of Part VI of the Emergency Management Act Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999;'; and

(b) by omitting paragraph 139 (1) (h) and substituting the following paragraph:

'(h) an amount for section 63 of the Emergency Management Act 1999.'.

(8) On the day after the commencement of the last of the provision of this Act mentioned in subsections (1) to (6)-

(a) the following Acts are repealed:

    • Ambulance Service Levy Act 1990
      • No 7

    • Ambulance Service Levy (Amendment) Act 1992
      • No 79

    • Ambulance Service Levy (Amendment) Act 1999
      • No 37;

and

(b) this section expires.".

Amendments agreed to.

Remainder of Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Motion (by Mr Hargreaves ) agreed to:

That, pursuant to standing order 187, clauses 2, 60 to 66, and 80, as amended, be reconsidered.

Clause 2, as amended

MR HARGREAVES (3.56): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 1, line 7, subclause (1), omit the subclause, substitute the following subclause:

"(1) Sections 1, 2 and 80 commence on the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.".

This amendment and other amendments on the pink sheet seek to remove from this Bill references to the ambulance service levy. It is quite inappropriate that such machinery provisions be included in legislation which essentially directs the service provision part of the Emergency Management Bill. The scrutiny of Bills committee looked at the Bill

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