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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4064 ..

MR SMYTH (continuing):

here is a delay on an important issue. I think it is sad that the select committees that have been set up are not actually doing what they were set up to do.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

STANDING COMMITTEES - ANNUAL REPORTS REFERENCE

Alteration to Reporting Date

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (10.55): I move:

That the resolution of the Assembly of 2 September 1999 referring the 1998-99 Annual Reports to the Standing Committees, be amended by omitting from paragraph (1) "1 February 2000" and substituting "by the first sitting day of February 2000".

The motion is quite straightforward. It simply flows from the fact that those reports are presently required to be presented on 1 February 2000. It is not proposed, and I do not think a member would suggest, that we should actually meet on 1 February. The first sitting day of February 2000 is a more effective date.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

STANDING COMMITTEES - REFERENCE - DRAFT 2000-01 BUDGET

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (10.56): Mr Speaker, I move:

That:

(1) the draft 2000-01 Budget for each appropriation unit be referred to the relevant General Purpose Standing Committee, to consider the expenditure proposals, revenue estimates and the capital works program for each portfolio and make recommendations that maintain or improve the operating result;

(2) the draft total Territory financial position be referred to the Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration (incorporating the Public Accounts Committee);

(3) the relevant draft budget documents be provided by the Treasurer to the President Member of each Standing Committee by 17 January 2000;

(4) the Committees report by 28 March 2000;

(5) if the Assembly is not sitting when the Committees complete their inquiries, the Committee may send their reports to the Speaker or, in the absence of the Speaker, to the Deputy Speaker who is authorised to give directions for its printing, circulation and publication;

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