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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 3 Hansard (6 March) . . Page.. 572 ..
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 7, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 8.
MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (11.53): This clause was actually consequential on the non-passage of the Unit Titles Bill. That has now been passed. I would simply substitute "Unit Titles Act 2000" with "Unit Titles Act 2001".
Clause 8 agreed to.
Clause 9 agreed to.
Clause 10.
MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (11.54): I move amendment No 4 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 part 1 at page 679].
Again, this is a technical amendment which, I understand, was suggested by the Law Society.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 10, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 11 agreed to.
Clause 12.
MS TUCKER (11.55): I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 part 1 at page 690].
It is important that the protection this bill offers to tenants is available for charities, incorporated associations, businesses providing both business and secretarial services, child-care businesses, art galleries and so on. Community associations and charities make invaluable contributions to society and often lack even the flexibility of small businesses when it comes to negotiating leases and finding accommodation.
Businesses providing a combination of business and secretarial services are an anomaly within this bill. They can justifiably be seen as retail operations. Such provisions can be made through regulations but, in the context of a bill which seeks to specify the application of the act and to incorporate so many aspects of the existing code, it seems appropriate to include these provisions in the act.
MR STEFANIAK
(Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (11.56): The government opposes this amendment. We propose to do what Ms Tucker is suggesting by regulation, as under the existing scheme--indeed, draft regulations have been provided to the Greens. The nature of the entities described may change from time to
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