Page 2454 - Week 06 - Thursday, 10 May 2012
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Amendment withdrawn.
MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Leader, ACT Greens) (10.39), by leave: I move amendments Nos 7 to 9 circulated in my name together [see schedule 9 at page 2480]. I will not be moving amendment No 6.
The substance of these amendments is relatively minor. The most substantial gives effect to the previous amendment, which is around a natural person. This adds in that sort of penalty clause to follow on from that amendment.
Amendments agreed to.
MRS DUNNE (Ginninderra) (10.41): I am not going to move amendment 13.
MS HUNTER (Ginninderra—Parliamentary Leader, ACT Greens) (10.42): I move amendment No 10 circulated in my name [see schedule 9 at page 2480].
Madam Assistant Speaker, this is an amendment that regulates transactions between parties.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (10.42): The government does not agree to the introduction of the federal election account. The federal election account is neither defined nor legislated other than in this amendment. As I indicated previously, the government is of the view that it is beyond the power of the Assembly to legislate in this regard, as it would purport to regulate political activity in federal election campaigns. The government does not support the amendment.
Amendment negatived.
Clause 19, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 20 agreed to.
Clause 21.
MR CORBELL (Molonglo—Attorney-General, Minister for Police and Emergency Services and Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development) (10.43): I move amendment No 12 circulated in my name [see schedule 4 at page 2470].
This amendment inserts new section 215FA to provide that it would be an offence for a party or a non-party MLA to use administrative expenditure funding to pay for electoral expenditure related to an ACT federal, state or local government election. This amendment gives effect to the original policy intent of the administrative expenditure fund, which is that this fund will provide support to parties and non-party MLAs by providing them with funding for administrative expenses. It was not
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