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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 3 Hansard (9 March) . . Page.. 802 ..

MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):

Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Act -

Road Transport (Safety and Traffic Management) Regulations 2000 - Subordinate Law 2000 No 10 (S6, dated 29 February 2000) and associated Australian Road Rules prepared by the National Road Transport Commission, dated October 1999.

Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Act -

Road Transport (Vehicle Registration) Regulations 2000 - Subordinate Law 2000 No 12 (S6, dated 29 February 2000).

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Act -

Road Transport (Driver Licensing) Regulations 2000 - Subordinate Law 2000 No 14 (S6, dated 29 February 2000).

JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY - STANDING COMMITTEE

Report on Joint Emergency Services Centre (JESC) Proposal

Government Response

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (3.36): For the information of members, I present the Government's response to the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety report No. 7 entitled "Joint Emergency Services Centre (JESC) Proposal". The report was presented to the Assembly on 9 December 1999. I move:

That the Assembly takes note of the paper.

I have a tabling statement and I ask for leave to have that incorporated in Hansard.

Leave granted.

The statement read as follows:

Mr speaker, I wish to table today the Government's response to the inquiry Report on the Joint Emergency Services Centre (JESC) proposal relating to the Woden JESC.

This Government has been progressively modernising the facilities required by all our emergency services. Since coming to office this Government has:

Built the new Tuggeranong Police Station

Extended the Hall Bushfire Brigade Station to cater for an Emergency Service component.

Converted the Fyshwick Fire station into a JESC by extending the station to cater for an Ambulance crew.

Built a new joint Molonglo Bushfire and Emergency Service Brigade Station behind Higgins.

Built the JESC at Gungahlin housing a Police Station and all four response agencies of the Emergency Services Bureau.

Provided funding in the 1999/2000 budget to upgrade the Southern Districts Bushfire Brigade Station at Tharwa and to include an Emergency Service component.

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