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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 7 Hansard (27 June) . . Page.. 1966 ..
Motion (by Mr Corbell ) agreed to, with the concurrence of an absolute majority:
That so much of standing order 229 be suspended as would prevent the Select Committee on Estimates 2000-2001 meeting during the sitting of the Assembly this morning.
JUSTICE AND COMMUNITY SAFETY-STANDING COMMITTEE
MR OSBORNE: I present Scrutiny Report No. 10 of 2000 of the Standing Committee on Justice and Community Safety performing the duties of a scrutiny of bills and subordinate legislation committee. I seek leave to make a statement.
Leave granted.
MR OSBORNE: Thank you. Scrutiny Report No. 10 of 2000 was circulated when the Assembly was not sitting on 26 June 2000, pursuant to the resolution of appointment of 28 April 1998. The report contains the committee's comments on 13 bills, 18 subordinate laws and four government responses. I commend the report to the Assembly.
That this bill be agreed to in principle.
MR QUINLAN (10.52): This bill seeks to formalise the land tax formula for multi-dwelling rateable properties such as dual occupancy flats and granny flats. It sets down a specific formula to cater for the rating and the levying of land tax on dual occupancy dwellings.
Mr Speaker, I have to note that there still remains within the bill the discretion of the commissioner to determine apportionment within the overall property as between the two or more dwellings. Therefore there remains some discretion to the commissioner. I give notice that in the detail stage I will be moving an amendment to allow for appeals to remain even though this bill sets out to eliminate the capacity of people to appeal against decisions of the commissioner. Seeing that the discretion of the commissioner remains within the structure of the legislation, quite obviously the appeal process must remain.
We support the bill in principle, but we will be moving an amendment in the detail stage.
MR HUMPHRIES
(Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (10.54), in reply: Mr Speaker, I thank Mr Quinlan for the opposition's support for the bill. I take it members have agreed that it is important to have a formula in place rather than a discretionary power under the legislation to
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