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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 4 Hansard (30 March) . . Page.. 1096 ..

MR SMYTH (continuing):

The Government is confident that the state-of-the-art approach to fisheries management provided for in this Bill will ensure that recreational fishing is sustainable and the biodiversity of our waterways is conserved. The Bill will also allow us to play our part in conserving Australia's fisheries as a whole.

Mr Speaker, the Fisheries Bill Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 is a long overdue reform and I invite members to join with me in ensuing this bill does not become "the one that got away".

I commend the Bill to the Assembly.

Debate (on motion by Mr Corbell ) adjourned.

JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY - STANDING COMMITTEE

Notice of Motion

Notice No. 1, Assembly business, having been called on and the member not being present, the notice was withdrawn from the notice paper, in accordance with standing order 127.

BOOKMAKERS ACT - INSTRUMENT NO. 55 OF 2000

Motion for Disallowance of Provision

MS TUCKER (11.01): I move:

That the provision of Instrument No. 55 of 2000, made under the Bookmakers Act 1985, which revokes Determination No. 138 of 1995 notified in Gazette No. S250 of 29 September 1995 be disallowed pursuant to the Subordinate Laws Act 1989.

Mr Speaker, the instrument which Mr Humphries tabled in the last sitting period and which I move to disallow today has the effect of clearly removing any reference to a cap on the number of sports betting licences. Until December last year there was a cap of four. In December this cap was removed with determination No. 272. This latest determination appears to be a technical clarification of the previous determination.

Unfortunately, I was not aware in December that this instrument was tabled so did not respond at that time. It is an unfortunate fact, Mr Speaker, that due to pressures of responsibilities in this place members here do not always get to check everything as thoroughly as we would like. I am concerned that sometimes I feel government could take advantage of that. That is the reason I am more and more resistant to power being delegated to the Minister through regulation. It is just too easy for government to slip things across the table and hope no-one notices. The Government is not usually shy about putting out press releases but they were this time. Isn't that funny?

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