Page 1727 - Week 05 - Thursday, 8 May 2008
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This amendment is intended to clarify the intent of the bill, which is to ensure that an MLA is not to be required to disclose expenditure made using funds provided by the Legislative Assembly to assist the MLA in exercising his or her functions as an MLA, for example funds provided in an MLA’s discretionary office allocation. The clause in the bill is unintentionally too broad and could be interpreted as applying to expenditure made using an MLA’s salary and is being amended accordingly.
MR MULCAHY (Molonglo) (11.44): I will claim some shared credit for this amendment. I think this came up when the Acting Leader of the Opposition’s good friend Mr Kent identified this as an issue, which I subsequently raised with the Clerk, who then spoke to Mr Green. It was then identified that there was, in fact, a problem that potentially existed. The amendment simply removes now any doubt in relation to the use of DOA on communications.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 87, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 88.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (11.45): I move amendment No 29 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 1777].
This amendment is one of a series of amendments intended to undo the various changes in the bill related to disclosure. This amendment will also ensure that political parties registered at both the ACT and commonwealth levels will not be able to satisfy their disclosure obligations by submitting a copy of their commonwealth disclosure returns to the ACT Electoral Commissioner. This is intended to ensure that the ACT cannot in future have its disclosure scheme automatically altered by changes at a commonwealth level.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause 88, as amended, agreed to.
Proposed new clause 88A.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (11.46): I move amendment No 30 circulated in my name which inserts a new clause 88A [see schedule 1 at page 1777].
Amendment agreed to.
Proposed new clause 88A agreed to.
Clause 89.
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