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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2002 Week 14 Hansard (10 December) . . Page.. 4160 ..

MR CORBELL (continuing):

In relation to this amendment No 2, which deals with land information as opposed to the cadastral database, it is not a provision the government will support.

Amendment negatived.

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.25): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 6 at page 4192].

Mr Speaker, amendment No 3 inserts a note after clause 8 (1) (g) to make clearer the source of the Planning and Land Authority's authorisation to grant leases. This is principally related to ensuring that the power of the executive to grant leases is properly communicated through the activities of the Planning and Land Authority. It clarifies the relationship and indicates where the respective powers rest.

Amendment agreed to.

MRS DUNNE (8.26): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 3 circulated in my name [see schedule 7 at page 4199].

My amendment No 3 removes 8 (1) (j), the regulation of the building industry, from the functions of the Planning and Land Authority. It is our view that the regulation of the building industry-the control of building, electrical and plumbing services and such areas-should stand outside the act. These are already governed by the Building Act and should not be functions of the Land and Planning Authority. The role of the building regulator should be separate from that of the planning regulator.

MR CORBELL (Minister for Education, Youth and Family Services, Minister for Planning and Minister for Industrial Relations) (8.27): Mr Speaker, the government will not be supporting this amendment. I think Mrs Dunne has not made a good enough argument as to why the building regulation activity should be separate from the Planning and Land Authority. She says it should not be there, but she does not say why.

From the government's perspective, it is a more streamlined process to have building regulation as part of the planning authority. We believe it is important, because building regulation is an important follow-through after development approval. Given that you are dealing with the same industry, the same players and the same applicants, it is far cleaner if is managed consistently through a single organisation.

If Mrs Dunne has a substantial reason for not including building regulations in planning, apart from the assertion they should not be there, then I think it is important that the Assembly hears that. However, simply asserting that they should not be there, without analysing why they should not-given that you are then separating two parts of the activity from the agency that would otherwise deal with the players all the way through-is a concern. The government will not support the amendment.

Amendment negatived.

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