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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (15 February) . . Page.. 26 ..
MR STANHOPE (continuing):
Page 41, line 12, proposed amendment of Tenancy Tribunal Act 1994, proposed new section 66: Before paragraph (a), insert the following paragraph:
"(aa) whether the member is the president, a deputy president, owner member or tenant member; and".
I do not need to speak at length on the amendments, Mr Speaker. I am proposing an amendment to each of the Acts proposed to be amended by the Bill which simply inserts for the purposes of greater certitude that an instrument of appointment in relation to persons appointed to tribunals be named by, in effect, the title by which they are appointed; in other words, whether they be the president or the deputy president, for instance, or whether they be a consumer representative, an industry member or whatever it might be in relation to each of the respective tribunals. They are minor but useful housekeeping amendments and I commend them to members.
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (12.12): Mr Speaker, I have no objection to Mr Stanhope's amendments. I am advised that whenever appointments are made they are always made giving the title of the person who is being appointed to indicate which position they are being appointed to, but a belts and braces approach does not hurt. I support the amendments before the house.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
That this Bill be agreed to in principle.
MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (12.13): This Bill is a further housekeeping or omnibus Bill dealing with a significant number of Acts. It deals with the Consumer Credit Act, the Credit Act, the Director of Public Prosecutions Act, the Evidence Act, the Fair Trading Act, the Interpretation Act, the Residential Tenancies Act, the Tenancy Tribunal Act, the Trade Measurement Act, the Credit Regulations and the Door-to-Door Trading Regulations.
I say at the outset that the Opposition was quite prepared to proceed with and support the Bill as presented by the Attorney-General. As members would be aware, the Attorney did have prepared and distributed last night 16 pages of amendments to the Bill. I regret, Mr Speaker, that neither I nor the Opposition have had time to look in detail at the amendments. I have to say that a very quick flick through them indicates to me that we
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