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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 3 Hansard (9 March) . . Page.. 882 ..

The Assembly voted -

AYES, 9   	NOES, 8

Ms Carnell  	Mr Berry
Mr Cornwell  	Mr Corbell
Mr Hird  	Mr Hargreaves
Mr Humphries  	Mr Osborne
Mr Kaine  	Mr Quinlan
Mr Moore  	Mr Stanhope
Mr Rugendyke   	Ms Tucker
Mr Smyth  	Mr Wood
Mr Stefaniak
Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Detail Stage

Clause 1 to 4, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 5

MR QUINLAN (9.53): I move:

Page 2, line 29, add the following new subclause:

"(2) To avoid any doubt, the enactment of this Act is not, and is not to be taken to be, a consent or approval of the Territory or the Legislative Assembly for any law (including a provision of this Act), contract or agreement that requires or envisages such consent or approval and, in particular, is not a consent or approval to-

(a) an agreement of the kind mentioned in subsection (1); or

(b) a vesting of assets, rights or liabilities under this Act; or

(c) any other matter consequent on or relating to such an agreement or vesting.".

I did promise that I would not labour my amendments. I only say that I think they are appropriate amendments. They have been worked through in association with the Parliamentary Counsel, so I do take the demolition job that the ACTEW lawyer has attempted to wreak upon them with a grain of salt. I commend this amendment to the house.

MS TUCKER

(9.54): I make a general comment about the timing of bringing forward different legal advice. This happened last week with some legislation that I introduced. Mr Smyth brought legal advice challenging the technical correctness of my legislation, and I was forced to adjourn the debate. I got support for that, because it was obviously totally unreasonable for people to have to make a quick decision. I was interested in ensuring that our legislation was not flawed even though it was developed by

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