Page 2028 - Week 07 - Thursday, 23 August 2007

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This amendment inserts new clause 245A into the bill to specify that the territory must not transfer a lease if the territory is the registered proprietor of the lease. This is to prohibit the transfer of leases where the territory is the registered proprietor. This prohibition is to underline current practice which is to issue such leases with a condition that they not be transferred.

Proposed new clause 245A agreed to.

Clause 246.

MR SESELJA (Molonglo) (9.11): I move amendment No 15 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 2099].

Amendment No 15 relates to use as development. It seeks to amend clause 246 (2) by inserting, after “of the land”, “for the same purpose”.

MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (9.11): As we have resolved this issue, the government will not be supporting Mr Seselja’s amendment.

Amendment negatived.

Clause 246 agreed to.

Clause 247.

MR SESELJA (Molonglo) (9.12): We oppose clause 247 because we see it as being unnecessary for the reasons spelt out before [see schedule 2 at page 2099].

MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (9.12): The government will be supporting this clause, for reasons that are exactly opposite what Mr Seselja has just outlined ever so briefly.

Clause 247 agreed to.

Clauses 248 to 251, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 252.

MR BARR (Molonglo—Minister for Education and Training, Minister for Planning, Minister for Tourism, Sport and Recreation, Minister for Industrial Relations) (9.13): I move amendment No 98 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 2065].

Amendment 98 substitutes a new clause 252 in the bill to clarify that division 9.4.2, the varying concessional leases to remove concessional status division, applies if the application to vary a concessional lease includes a proposal to remove its concessional


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