Page 4131 - Week 09 - Thursday, 26 August 2010
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Amendment agreed to.
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Schedule 1 agreed to.
Dictionary.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (7.15): I move amendment No 31 circulated in my name [see schedule 1 at page 4143].
The amendment inserts a new definition of “confidential provisions” into the dictionary. You will be pleased to know that this is the last one. I do not have a script for this one, for some reason. This is a simple measure that is consequential on the decision that we made earlier in the day to create an exemption for confidential provisions in the RAMP. What this does is insert a definition in the dictionary.
Amendment agreed to.
Dictionary, as amended, agreed to.
Title agreed to.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Minister for Energy and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (7.16), by leave: I simply wanted to place on the record, now that we are about to vote and pass this legislation, my very sincere thanks to the officers of my department who have laboured long and hard in developing this legislation. It has been a mammoth task. Our liquor laws have not been reformed since the Liquor Act was first introduced in 1975. This complete rewriting of the legislation has come not through my efforts, although I am proud to be the minister putting these amendments to the Assembly today, but overwhelmingly through the efforts of officers in my department.
Particular recognition must be given to Janice Boyle. Janice, thank you for your very dedicated and strenuous efforts from the beginning of this process—the development of the discussion paper, the commentary and consultation around that, the drafting of the legislation itself and the countless meetings that I have had with you where you have briefed me on all the different elements of the legislation, the issues around it and how to work our way forward through it. You deserve to be commended wholeheartedly for the work that you have done. I know that there are other officers as well. I cannot identify all of those by name. I know that Janice has been the primary officer in charge of this legislation. To you, thank you for your efforts—and thank you to everyone else in my department who has worked long and hard to get to this point today. This is an important reform and one which I believe is for the good of public safety in the territory.
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