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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 1962 ..
MR CORBELL (10.35): Mr Speaker, pursuant to standing order 150, I move:
That order of the day No. 2, Assembly business, relating to the presentation of the Report of the Select Committee on Estimates 2000-2001 be postponed until a later hour this day.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker, I seek leave to present Scrutiny Report No. 9 of 2000 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety performing the duties of a scrutiny of bills and subordinate legislation committee.
Leave granted.
MR HARGREAVES: Mr Speaker, I present Scrutiny Report No. 9 of 2000 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety performing the duties of a scrutiny of bills and subordinate legislation committee on the third meeting of chairs and deputy chairs of Australian scrutiny of primary and delegated legislation committees held on 8 May 2000.
Debate resumed from 23 May 2000, on motion by Mr Humphries:
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
MR QUINLAN (10.37): At this point we are heading into quite a number of bills in relation to and arising from the implementation of the GST. First of all, I would like to comment on the explanatory memoranda. We seem to be getting explanatory memorandum that tell you exactly what the bill tells you, like this changes that and those words to that. I would have thought that explanatory memoranda would be of benefit by saying why that is being done or "this has the effect of doing that". Amongst a lot of the legislation that we will be looking at today there seems to be a paucity of reasons given, or some English language description given, of the impact or effect of particular elements of the legislation.
That is something that I would like to put on record today, having struggled last night through the waves of amendments that are arriving and trying, with the best will in the world, to ensure that we do not put the wheels of administration within the ACT awry to the point where we are not operational. That is not difficult. I understand that we have
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