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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 3 Hansard (6 March) . . Page.. 655 ..

MR STANHOPE (Leader of the Opposition) (8.33): I need to read this. I do not know what the procedure is, Mr Speaker, but I need to read this amendment.

MR SPEAKER: Very well.

MR STANHOPE: I have a steel trap mind but it does not work quite that fast.

MR RUGENDYKE (8.34): Mr Speaker, I understand that what is happening now is that the Attorney has said that this new amendment to clause 107AA of his amendment does what Mr Stanhope's amendment relating to subclause (7) does. I would like the Attorney to explain to the Assembly how this purports to do what Mr Stanhope's amendment so clearly says it does. This is quite out of left field, I think, and it needs a good explanation as how proposed section 51 comes into play in relation to this proposed new section 107AA.

MR STEFANIAK (Minister for Education and Attorney-General) (8.35): It is relatively simple, Mr Speaker. It basically means that if there is an agreement between the landlord and the tenant the tenant cannot the very next day effectively rip up that agreement and then just go off to the Magistrates Court. It means the tenant has to actually accept the agreement that they have made, and they have made with their eyes open, between themselves and the landlord.

MR SPEAKER: Members, are you able to debate this now, or would you like a suspension?

Mr Stanhope: I would like a suspension for five minutes, Mr Speaker.

MR SPEAKER: Well, let us make it 15 minutes.

MR STANHOPE: I do not need that long. I am trying to listen to what is going on and I am trying to work out what this means.

MR SPEAKER: I understand. I will compromise with you, Mr Stanhope. We will make it 10 minutes.

Sitting suspended from 8.35 to 8.46 pm.

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