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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 12 Hansard (5 December) . . Page.. 3711 ..
MS TUCKER (9.45): I want to speak in support of these amendments. As I understand it, the minister does not understand why we think he should take responsibility for this. A determination under proposed subsection (1) is a disallowable instrument. That subsection reads:
In relation to a licensee that is a club the required community contribution is the proportion of the club's net revenue in a financial year set out in the table below, or such other proportion as may be determined by the Minister.
So the minister has that ultimate role. We get to a different set of circumstances if the gross revenue of the club in a financial year is likely to be of less than $200,000. Then the commission has the job - and it is not even the job of setting a rate. It is quite vague. It says that the commission may set a lower required community contribution for the club. Mr Humphries' argument was that guidelines to applicants and so on handled by the gambling commission are the same question, but I would disagree with that. If you look at those instructions to applicants, you will see hundreds of pages. There are very detailed criteria which will guide the commission's recommendations.
I think it is inconsistent to have within the same section the commission making one decision and the minister being empowered to make the other if he or she so chooses. This is a good amendment and it should be supported.
Amendments agreed to.
Clause 14, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 15 agreed to.
Title agreed to.
Clause 4 - Recommittal.
Ordered that clause 4, as amended, be reconsidered.
MR OSBORNE (9.48): I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name:
No 2 -
Clause 4, page 2, line 9, paragraph (b), insert the following new definition:
"candidate - see the Electoral Act 1992, section 3.".
Amendment No 2 includes a new definition of "candidate" at the start of the bill. The definition is from the Electoral Act 1992 and a follow - on from my earlier amendment to Mr Moore's amendment No 7.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 4, as recommitted, as amended, agreed to.
MR SPEAKER: The question now is that this bill, as amended, be agreed to.
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