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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2004 Week 06 Hansard (Thursday, 24 June 2004) . . Page.. 2677 ..

Amendment negatived.

Clause 17 agreed to.

Clause 18.

MR QUINLAN (Treasurer, Minister for Economic Development, Business and Tourism and Minister for Sport, Racing and Gaming) (5.08): Mr Speaker, I move amendment No 2 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 2761]. This is just a point of clarification in the final review of the bill about a couple of words that are redundant to the message. It is nothing earth shattering.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 18, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 19.

MS TUCKER (5.08): I move amendment No 1 circulated in my name [see schedule 8 at page 2764]. This section relates to the publication of social impact assessments, which are required of applicants for a new licence or to amend a licence. The section as proposed requires an ad to be placed in an ACT newspaper alerting members of the public to the six-week consultation period on the SIA.

My amendment would add to that by inserting two new sections requiring a sign to be erected at the site of the proposed change, much like the signs required for a development application. The requirement would be that on or before the day the advertisement is published, the applicant must place a sign, called the information sign, containing information about the application in a prominent position outside each public entrance to the premises to which the application relates and ensure that the sign stays at the entrance for the six-week comment period.

The information sign for an application must include the following:

a) a description of the application;

b) a statement of when and where the social impact assessment for the application will be available;

c) an invitation to make written submissions to the commission about the social impact assessment within the six-week comment period;

d) when the six-week comment period ends; and

e) details of where to get more information.

This is a fairly straightforward amendment. The idea is that for the public consultation on the proposed new poker machines to be realistic as many potentially affected members of the public as possible should know. To elaborate, the bill establishes a six-week consultation period for members of the public to comment on the social impact assessment and thereby give their own input on social impacts.

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