Page 3597 - Week 11 - Thursday, 22 September 2005

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The bill provides for trees in the built-up area to be placed on the tree register. The heritage register provided for by the Heritage Act 2004 may protect trees outside the area. This amendment is a technical amendment that ensures that this provision operates correctly.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 116, as amended, agreed to.

Clause 117.

MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Arts, Heritage and Indigenous Affairs, and Acting Minister for Education and Training) (5.11): I move amendment No 34 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 3619].

This is a technical amendment relating to transitional arrangements.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 117, as amended, agreed to.

Clauses 118 to 121, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Schedule 1.

MR STANHOPE (Ginninderra—Chief Minister, Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment and Minister for Arts, Heritage and Indigenous Affairs, and Acting Minister for Education and Training) (5.12): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 35 to 40 circulated in my name together.

Leave granted.

MR STANHOPE: I move amendments Nos 35 to 40 circulated in my name [see schedule 3 at page 3619].

Amendment No 35 changes the consequential amendments to the Heritage Act 2004 to ensure that only trees within the built-up area are transferred to the tree register, leaving heritage trees outside the built-up area under the protection of the heritage register. Amendment No 36 is a technical amendment relating to the placement of definitions in the dictionary provided in the bill.

Amendments Nos 37, 38 and 39 change the consequential amendments to the Land (Planning and Environment) Act in light of amendments previously debated relating to the integration of tree protection into the development application process. Amendment No 40 is a technical amendment relating to the consequential amendments placing relevant definitions in the dictionary provided in the Land (Planning and Environment) Act 1991.


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