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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2003 Week 8 Hansard (21 August) . . Page.. 3080 ..

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Ayes 3  			Noes 10

Mrs Cross    		Mr Berry  	Ms MacDonald
Ms Dundas    		Mrs Burke  	Mr Pratt
Ms Tucker    		Mr Cornwell  	Mr Stanhope
     			Ms Gallagher  	Mr Stefaniak
     			Mr Hargreaves  	Mr Wood

Question so resolved in the negative.

Mr Stanhope's amendment agreed to.

Clause, as amended, agreed to.

Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole and agreed to.

Clause 58-recommittal.

MR STANHOPE (Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for Environment and Minister for Community Affairs) (6.31): Mr Speaker, in accordance with standing order 187, I move:

That clause 58 be recommitted.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

MR STANHOPE: Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 9 at page 3095].

Just very briefly, Mr Speaker: this amendment substitutes the following words in proposed new section 16B (4):

(4) If the cause of action arose before 1 July 2003, the cause of action is not maintainable if brought after the end of whichever of the following periods ends first:

(a) the 3-year period mentioned in subsection (2) that would apply to the action if the cause of action arose on 1 July 2003;

(b) the period that would have applied to the cause of action apart from this section.

Mr Speaker, this amendment simply provides a greater degree of certainty to the commencement of operation of the statute of limitations post-1 July 2003.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 58, as amended, agreed to.

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