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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 6 Hansard (19 June) . . Page.. 2149 ..
MRS DUNNE (continuing):
At this stage, I am concerned about the open-endedness of these amendments. On the basis of this and without the time to clearly consider it, either we can adjourn it until next week and have this considered or the Liberal Party will oppose it. If the amendment fails, I will welcome the minister bringing another amendment to the planning and land bill to fix it up-but with more notice because the process is really inappropriate.
We had this discussed yesterday. It looks like some boffin in PALM said, "Let's do something else new."Quite frankly, at this stage of the game, this is not the way to do it. On those grounds, the Liberal opposition will be opposing this amendment.
MR CORBELL
(Minister for Health and Minister for Planning) (4.01): I need to clarify with Mrs Dunne that the clause the Liberal opposition is opposing today is the same as was circulated earlier this week. The difference, as I understand it, simply relates to a matter of form, as required by Parliamentary Counsel.Regardless of the circumstances, let me address this substantive issue. When the Land Development Agency is issuing leases to people who buy blocks of land from it, should only the chief executive officer be allowed to issue those leases, or should a staff member of the authority authorised by the chief executive officer be allowed to issue them? That is what it is about.
We can have a more unworkable situation where the chief executive officer of the Land Development Authority must personally issue, under his or her hand, every single lease for every single block of land sold to somebody by the Land Development Agency. Or we can have one of their staff issue the lease. That is what it is about. It is not sinister; it is not some dramatic expansion of power; it is simply about making the operations of the authority work.
Either way, it is not going to be the end of the world. But, in the spirit of getting a co-operative and workable outcome, it is not unreasonable to say that the power of the chief executive officer of the Land Development Agency to issue a lease should also be able to be delegated to relevant staff within the Land Development Agency. That is what it is about.
MRS CROSS
(4.03): I move:That the debate be adjourned.
The Assembly voted-
Ayes 9 Noes 8
Mrs Burke Mr Pratt Mr Berry Mr Quinlan
Mr Cornwell Mr Smyth Mr Corbell Mr Stanhope
Mrs Cross Mr Stefaniak Ms Gallagher Mr Wood
Ms Dundas Ms Tucker Mr Hargreaves
Mrs Dunne Ms MacDonald
Question so resolved in the affirmative.
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