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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 1965 ..

MR QUINLAN (continuing):

for one second, I want to check whether I have the amendment that was foreshadowed by the Treasurer. Yes, I have the amendment which was foreshadowed by the Treasurer.

This is an amendment that we will see a number of times today. It overcomes the difficulty with the lateness of this legislation, and the capacity to gazette it and have it commence by Saturday next. I think this amendment indicates that maybe we should have had some of this legislation before the house earlier. However, given that we do not wish to clag the wheels of administration within the territory, we support both the legislation and the foreshadowed amendment by the Treasurer.

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (10.49), in reply: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Quinlan for the opposition's support for the bill. The concession being made here to hospitals, schools and charitable organisations is an important one. I hope it is possible to make them more effective organisations, able to deliver a better standard of service and build up the social capital of the territory by being able, through concessions such as this, to divert more of their income into important activities relating to the sharp end of the things that they do in their communities to make a difference to the social fabric.

Mr Speaker, the amendment, as Mr Quinlan has noted, is about dealing with the possibility that a number of these bills will have to be gazetted after 30 June, but this ensures that the effect of the legislation is still from 1 July rather than from some later date. I thank members for their support.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (10.50): Mr Speaker, I move:

I present the supplementary explanatory memorandum to that amendment. I have already explained the purpose of the amendment, and I thank members for their support for it.

Amendment agreed to.

Bill as a whole, as amended, agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

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