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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 8 Hansard (31 August) . . Page.. 2775 ..

Question put:

The Assembly voted-

Ayes, 13  	Noes, 2
	
Mr Berry  	Mr Osborne
Ms Carnell  	Ms Tucker
Mr Corbell
Mr Hargreaves
Mr Hird
Mr Humphries
Mr Kaine
Mr Moore
Mr Quinlan
Mr Rugendyke
Mr Smyth
Mr Stanhope
Mr Stefaniak

Question so resolved in the affirmative.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 6, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 7 and 8, by leave, taken together, and agreed to.

Clause 9.

MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (4.48): I move:

This amendment is designed as part of a process to ensure, in effect, that these laws are reviewed before July 2002. As has been discussed and mentioned by a number of speakers, we are now quite keen to see the fruits of the inquiry which the ACT Law Reform Commission will institute into all aspects of assisted reproductive technology in the ACT. The commission has very broad terms of reference. As the Attorney-General and I indicated before, they were presented to the commission some 20 months ago. I think that the terms of reference are quite good. They are very broad and, from my reading of them, they appear to go to the full range of issues that are relevant to an inquiry into assisted reproductive technology.

I have suggested that they should be reviewed in light of this debate and the fact that we are making this adjustment to the law in the ACT with a view to determining that the commission's inquiry is as broad as each of the members of this place would like it to be.

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