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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1999 Week 13 Hansard (9 December) . . Page.. 4301 ..
(2) on the Committee presenting its report on the Bill to the Assembly, resumption of debate on the question "That this Bill be agreed to in principle" be set down as an order of the day for the next sitting;
(3) the foregoing provisions of this resolution have effect notwithstanding anything contained in the standing orders.
Motion (by Mr Osborne , by leave) agreed to:
That the resolution of appointment of the Assembly of 1 July 1999 appointing a Select Committee on the Workers' Compensation System be amended by inserting the following new paragraph (2):
(1A) the Workers Compensation Amendment Bill 1999 be referred to the Committee and on the Committee presenting its report on the Bill to the Assembly, resumption of debate on the question "That this Bill be agreed to in principle" be set down as an order of the day for the next sitting.
ABSENCE OF SPEAKER
The Clerk: Members, pursuant to standing order 6, I wish to inform the Assembly that the Speaker will be absent for the period 26 January to 3 February 2000, and in that period the Deputy Speaker, Mr Wood, will, as Acting Speaker, perform the duties of Speaker.
ADJOURNMENT
Valedictory
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (4.16 am): Mr Speaker, I move:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
I exercise my right as the mover of the motion to speak first on account of the fact that last year Mr Kaine pre-empted me by having somehow worked out what I was going to say in my Christmas speech and stolen my theme for it. I will speak first to avoid that happening again this year. Mr Speaker, I realise that some members have not enjoyed my Christmas speech in some years, strange to say. I thought that I would sweeten my Christmas speech this year by actually giving out gifts. Mr Hargreaves rushes back to his chair in those circumstances. They are not really gifts, Mr Speaker; they are more in
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