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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 1 Hansard (14 February) . . Page.. 151 ..
Clause 7.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (4.31): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 4 on the yellow sheet circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page ]. It is the same again; it is a consequential amendment to the consolidation and subdivision and the calculation of change of use charge there.
Mr CORBELL (4.32): Mr Speaker, the Assembly should not be supporting this amendment. It should not be supporting this amendment because it removes the provision for remission of change of use charge in relation to consolidation and subdivision to be disallowed. This government is proposing to remove the provisions that allow remission of change of use charge for the consolidation of subdivisions to be disallowed.
I draw members' attention to section 187C, subsection (5) which says that regulations made under this subsection take effect on the day after the period of disallowance has expired. This government is attempting to remove provisions that give this place veto of regulations about remission of change of use charge. I would like the minister to stand up in this place and explain why he thinks the Assembly should not have the right to disallow these regulations, because that is the effect of his amendment.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (4.33): Mr Speaker, I think Mr Corbell misunderstands. Currently, the way the act is framed, it may allow the disallowance period to be up to 12 days. This place has decided already that the disallowance period should be six days. This makes this part of the act consistent with all the other disallowance periods of disallowable instruments, consistent with other acts. That is all it does. That is the advice I have from the public servants who have drafted this.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 7, as amended, agreed to.
Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (4.34): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 5 on the yellow sheet circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page ].
Amendment agreed to.
Remainder of bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
MR SPEAKER: The question now is that this bill, as amended, be agreed to.
MR CORBELL
(4.36): Mr Speaker, the Labor Party no longer will be supporting this bill. That may seem a strange circumstance as it is a bill that I proposed to this place and we are about to vote on it, albeit in an amended form. However, Mr Speaker, it is quite clear that the amendments have changed the complete intent of the bill as was initially
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