Hansard - ACT Legislative Assembly

Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4212 ..

MR STANHOPE: I move:

Page 1, line 10, insert the following definitions:

"advisory committee means the advisory committee established by section 9A.

chairperson

means the chairperson of the advisory committee.

deputy chairperson

means the deputy chairperson of the advisory committee.".

Page 2, line 7, insert the following definitions:

internal management protocol

means a protocol approved under section 5C.

law enforcement protocol

means a protocol approved under section 5B.

newspaper

means a daily newspaper published and circulating in the Territory.

Page 2, line 23, definition of supervised injecting place , paragraph (a), omit "drugs of dependence", substitute "substances".

MR SPEAKER: Do you wish to speak to your amendments, Mr Stanhope?

MR STANHOPE: No. They are just definitional.

Amendments agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 4 agreed to.

Clause 5

Amendment (by Mr Stanhope ) proposed:

Page 3, line 2, omit the clause, substitute the following clauses:

"5 Declaration of facility

(1) The Minister may, by notice in the Gazette, declare a place to be the facility for this Act.

(2) The Minister may declare a place to be the facility only if-

(a) the Minister is satisfied the place is a hygienic environment suitable for use-

(i) to give drug dependent persons access to clean equipment to allow such a person to administer a substance to himself or herself at the place; and

(ii) to provide for the safe disposal of the equipment; and

(b) a law enforcement protocol has been approved under section 5A and published as required by section 5B; and