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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 6 Hansard (25 May) . . Page.. 1869 ..
MR HUMPHRIES (continuing):
Assembly scrutiny of any proposed appropriation to the fund. It gives effect to the government's commitment to ensure that money set aside for superannuation can only be used for that purpose.
The second amendment, which I will move in a moment, provides a definition of superannuation appropriation.
Amendment agreed to.
Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
Amendment (by Mr Humphries ) agreed to:
Dictionary, page 9, line 11, definition of superannuation appropriation , omit the definition, substitute the following definition:
"superannuation appropriation means an appropriation to the superannuation department declared by the Act by which it is made to be for superannuation and includes-
(a) an appropriation made before the commencement of this Act to-
(i) the department known as the ACT Superannuation Provision Unit; or
(ii) the department known as the ACT Superannuation and Insurance Provision Unit; and
(b) a payment under an authorisation under section 13A.".
Remainder of bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Bill, as amended, agreed to.
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
MR QUINLAN (8.52): Members will recall that in earlier debate on the bill the opposition expressed considerable dissatisfaction with the prospect of low-alcohol beverages no longer receiving the government subsidy that was introduced expressly for health, safety and common sense reasons to try to attract people to drinking and ingesting alcohol at a more moderate rate. We have made some public statements in that regard. It is a great disappointment that we face the prospect of this subsidy no longer applying.
Let me say that we have had discussion within our caucus as to what might have been done to ensure that we could continue this subsidy within the ACT. However, we do recognise that, since the bringing down of the New South Wales budget, there is the risk of the ACT subsidising a lot more than low-alcohol consumption within its borders. Being uncertain as to the measures the ACT might take to quarantine the subsidy to consumption strictly within the ACT, regrettably we have to accept, effectively, the repeal of the previous provision.
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