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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (25 May) . . Page.. 1863 ..
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MR BERRY (8.33): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move the two amendments circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MR BERRY: I move:
Clause 2, page 1, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:
"2 Commencement
This Act commences immediately after the commencement of section 10 of the Occupational Health and Safety (Amendment) Act (No. 2) 1999.
Note The provisions of an Act providing for its name and commencement automatically commence on the date of notification of the Act (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10B).".
New clause -
Page 1, add the following new clause to the Bill:
"5 Insertion
After section 25J the following section is inserted:
'25K Application of Financial Management Act 1996
Unless the contrary intention appears, the provisions of Parts 2 to 5 of the Financial Management Act 1996 apply to the commissioner as if-
(a) a reference in those provisions to a department included a reference to the commissioner and the staff assisting the commissioner; and
(b) a reference in those provisions to the responsible chief executive included a reference to the commissioner.'.".
Mr Speaker, I do not need to speak any further to these matters. They explained themselves in the previous debate in which they were foreshadowed and amply described. It is for the Assembly to decide.
MR SMYTH
(Minister for Urban Services) (8.34): Mr Speaker, the government has no problem with these amendments. They are in fact exactly the same as the amendments we had prepared for ourselves in the event of our bill going down. The government is
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