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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3709 ..
This amendment is to clarify the clause for people and to make it more readable. When I gave drafting instructions to parliamentary counsel, they set out the legislation in the way we currently see it. Since then a number of people have said to me, "This is hard to read." When you go through it a few times, it is clear what it means. It seems to me that it would make for much clearer reading and easier reading if we had "an amount equal to" in the legislation. It would then read:
In relation to a licensee that is a club the required community contribution for a financial year is the total of -
(a) an amount equal to the total of the contributions made by the licensee during the financial year to registered parties and associated entities...
The amendment is about making it easier to read rather than about changing the substance.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment, as amended, agreed to.
MR QUINLAN (9.40): Mr Speaker, I seek leave to move amendments 10 and 11 circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MR QUINLAN: I move:
No 10 -
Page 8, line 1, proposed new subsection 60G (2), omit "the commission", substitute "the Minister".
No 11 -
Page 8, line 8, proposed new subsection 60G (2), omit "the commission", substitute "the Minister".
These amendments are consistent with previous amendment No 9 and seeks to ensure that policy decision - making remains with the executive and that administrative and regulatory powers are separated and remain with the commission. I commend these amendments to the house as they are consistent with amendments already adopted.
MR HUMPHRIES (Chief Minister, Minister for Community Affairs, Attorney - General and Treasurer) (9.41): Mr Speaker, I am genuinely undecided about these two amendments.
Mr Quinlan: Then why didn't you adjourn the debate?
MR HUMPHRIES: Sorry, I am not prepared to do that. If you bring amendments forward at the last minute and then ask us to adjourn the debate because you have done it on that basis, I am afraid you will have to bear the consequences of that.
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