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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2001 Week 10 Hansard (28 August) . . Page.. 3432 ..

Proposed new clauses 4A and 4B.

MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (9.11): Mr Speaker, I move amendment 15 circulated in my name, which inserts new clauses 4A and 4B [see schedule 2 at page 3475].

Proposed new clauses 4A and 4B agreed to.

Clause 5.

MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (9.11): Mr Speaker, I move amendment 16 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 3475].

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 5, as amended, be agreed to.

Clauses 6 and 7, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services, Minister for Business, Tourism and the Arts and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (9.12): Mr Speaker, I move revised amendment 17 circulated in my name on the green sheet, which inserts new clause 7A [see schedule 7, green sheet, at page 3549].

MR BERRY (9.13): This amendment goes to the issue of when a worker stops being entitled to compensation under section 8D. It describes those circumstances as follows: when the worker stops being totally incapacitated; when the worker returns to work; for a worker who at the time of the injury being compensated was two years younger than pension age, when the worker reaches pension age; for a worker who at the time of the injury being compensated was two years younger than pension age or older, two years after the work first became entitled to compensation under this section; or when the worker dies.

These provisions are fundamentally fairer than those which are provided for by the government, and I urge members to support the amendments which have been put forward on the gold sheet.

MR SPEAKER: Mr Berry, are you formally moving an amendment to Mr Smyth's amendment?

MR BERRY: I move amendment 1 circulated in my name on the gold sheet [see schedule 4, gold sheet, at page 3542].

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