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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4158 ..

Clauses 3 and 4, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Proposed new clause 4A.

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.18): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name [see schedule 6 at page 4192].

The proposed amendment inserts a new clause 4A providing for the application of the criminal code in respect of offences under this act. This is essentially a machinery provision, which allows for the application of the new model criminal code in relation to all the functions in this bill.

Proposed new clause 4A agreed to.

Clauses 5 to 7, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 8.

MRS DUNNE (8.19): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 7 at page 4199].

This amendment and the three following it are procedural amendments to take out elements of the functions of the Land Development Authority which the Canberra Liberals consider are best placed in another part of the bureaucracy. The authority has a number of functions in relation to the administration of planning matters. It is our view that the administration of the digital cadastral database, for instance, would be better carried out by a subset of the Department of Urban Services. It is not entirely a planning matter and relates to other areas, as is the case with the next amendment, which refers to the regulation of the building industry and the provision of administrative support and facilities to the Land Development Council.

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.20): The government will not be supporting this amendment. Mrs Dunne's amendment essentially provides for the removal of a function from the proposed new Planning and Land Authority, the function of providing information from the cadastral database. The government will not support it because we see these issues of the management of the cadastre and the management of other relevant land information to be central to the functions of a planning and land authority. We believe it is completely inappropriate that they be removed from the role of the proposed authority.

This sort of information is important in putting together the sorts of planning instruments and broader planning policies for which the authority will have responsibility. To remove it from the authority's purview will undermine the capacity of the authority to undertake its roles fully.

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