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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 13 Hansard (19 November) . . Page.. 3769 ..

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 408, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 409 to 445, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 446.

MR STANHOPE (Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Health, Minister for Community Affairs and Minister for Women) (5.24): The government will be opposing this clause. At the suggestion of the scrutiny of bills committee, the proposed amendment omits a redundant provision.

Clause 446 negatived.

Clauses 447 to 457, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 458.

MR STANHOPE (Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Health, Minister for Community Affairs and Minister for Women) (5.25): I move amendment No 14 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 3777].

MR SPEAKER: Is this consequential?

MR STANHOPE: No, this is in relation to the change of name of a cooperative and the fact that it should be subject to AAT review. Similar to this, a Registrar-General decision under the Associations and Corporations Act 1991 can be reviewed.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 458, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 459 to 468, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 469.

MS DUNDAS (5.36): I move the amendment circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 3780].

As I mentioned at the in-principle stage, the scrutiny of bills committee raised concerns with the uncommonly broad power to be granted to the registrar of cooperatives to exempt persons from the application of numerous requirements of the act. The exemption power, as it stands in the bill, can be exercised for any reason and is subject to no restriction, guideline or accountability to the Assembly. As such, I believe that this power is excessive. The amendment I move today requires the registrar to develop guidelines to govern the exemption powers before he or she grants an exemption.

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