Page 5340 - Week 12 - Thursday, 28 October 2010
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Amendment No 12 goes hand in hand with amendment No 11, which we have just passed. It completes the process of taking out the occupational disciplinary provisions that would allow people to have occupational disciplinary provisions if they contravene that range of acts that we have already discussed—the Building Act, the Food Act, the Environment Protection Act, the Roads and Public Places Act, the Smoking (Prohibition in Enclosed Public Places) Act 2003 and the Work Safety Act. Seeing that we have already passed amendment 11, it is natural that we have to pass amendment 12 as well.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Water, Minister for Energy and Minister for Police and Emergency Services) (5.22): The government will not be supporting this amendment for the same reasons I outlined in relation to the previous amendment.
Amendment agreed to.
Amendment 1.39, as amended, be agreed to.
Amendments 11.40 to 1.43, by leave, taken together and agreed to.
Amendment 1.44.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (5.23): I move amendment No 13 circulated in my name [see schedule 2 at page 5353].
This amendment gives licensees and permit holders a bit more time to prepare and submit their risk assessment management plans, or RAMPs, after the implementation of this act. The present requirement is that all existing licensees making an application for a new licence under the new act has to be done by 30 November if they are to avoid having to go through a whole new licence application process, and they must submit a RAMP with their application.
After they have submitted the RAMP with their application, the commissioner has six months to make and communicate a decision in relation to those RAMPs. Albeit that RAMPs in this application phase do not have to include floor plans and ACTPLA certificates, there is a considerable amount of other information required to be included. I sat with a liquor licensee the other day as he took me through his draft RAMP, and it is an extensive amount of information.
All the requirements in relation to the RAMP only became available on 21 October, when the regulations were notified on the legislation register. This leaves licensees with less than six weeks to put their RAMPs together, along with their licence applications. Again, this is typical of this government’s unwillingness to work with the industry to ensure that the process it expects people in the community to follow is reasonable and achievable.
My amendment would allow licensees a further period of three months to submit their RAMPs after the commencement of the act. This would give them a better time frame
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