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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 8 Hansard (31 August) . . Page.. 2798 ..

MR QUINLAN (continuing):

up a statutory authority to operate ACTION, and that statutory authority was part of the last EBA negotiations with the Transport Workers Union.

It seems to me that the government is adopting the device of first using the word "corporation" as part of the shift towards corporatisation. This body is a statutory authority. Let us call it what it is. If we are going to set up a corporation, then let us do so. But let us not have one thing and name it the other; let us not corrupt the name we give to the various agencies that we have in the territory. In future, I hope that when we set up agencies that are once removed from departmental operations, we are open enough to call them statutory authorities if that is what they are.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 1, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 2.

MR HUMPHRIES (Treasurer, Attorney-General and Minister for Justice and Community Safety) (6.18): I move:

Page 1, line 6, omit the clause, substitute the following clause:

"2 Commencement

This Act commences on a day fixed by the Minister by notice in the Gazette.

Note 1 The provisions of an Act providing for its name and commencement automatically commence on the date of notification of the Act (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10B).

Note 2 A single day or time may be fixed, or different days or times may be fixed, for the commencement of different provisions (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10C (1)).

Note 3 If a provision has not commenced with 6 months beginning on the date of notification of the Act, it automatically commences on the first day after that period (see Interpretation Act 1967, s 10E (2)).".

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the amendment, which simply sets a commencement date for the legislation.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 2, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 3 to 14, by leave, taken together.

MR QUINLAN (6.19): Mr Speaker, I ask for leave to move amendments Nos 2 to 22, circulated in my name, together.

Leave granted.

MR QUINLAN: Thank you. The amendments are self-explanatory and consistent with the amendment to clause 1. I move:

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