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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 1 Hansard (17 February) . . Page.. 296 ..
MR HUMPHRIES: I move:
That the following orders of the day be discharged from the Notice Paper:
Executive business -
No. 6 relating to the Commonwealth Year 2000 legislation;
No. 9 relating to the Ministerial Statement on the Draft Drugs Education Policy Framework for ACT Government Schools;
No. 12 relating to Review of the Milk Authority Act and Public Health (Dairy Regulations); and
No. 14 relating to the Ministerial statement on rural residential development.
Private Members' business -
No. 21 relating to the motion of the legislative requirement for an Independent Statutory Body on Official Corruption;
No. 24 relating to the Motor Traffic (Amendment) Bill (No. 3) 1999; and
No. 25 relating to the Motor Traffic (Alcohol and Drugs) Amendment Bill 1999
I assume that there has been discussion and agreement about these matters being removed from the notice paper.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (4.18): I ask for the leave of the Assembly to make a ministerial statement on the implementation of the goods and services tax.
Leave granted.
MR HUMPHRIES: Recent articles in the press and media releases by members of the Assembly indicate to me that there is still some misunderstanding surrounding the effects of national tax reform on Commonwealth-State financial relations and the implications for the Territory budget. I would therefore like first to address a number of the broader issues of principle before moving on to detail the strategies that the ACT Government is adopting to ensure ACT government agencies will be GST compliant by 1 July 2000.
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