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allow the work health and safety regulator to issue compliance notices for the removal of asbestos or asbestos containing materials that had been installed at a workplace. This bill will adopt those changes into the ACT’s work health and safety laws.
This bill will deliver better protections for working Canberrans and ensure that the work health and safety regulator has the necessary powers available to conduct compliance activity.
I thank Mr Rattenbury for his comments in support of the bill. All I can do is yet again stand here and shake my head at Mr Wall’s comments. I must say, his efficiency at dusting off his regular speech every time I bring forward a bill is very consistent, if not slightly frustrating, because the same talking points are consistently used.
What I will say is that I am focused on making sure that we have as safe worksites as we possibly can. And that is why I have brought forward these amendments as part of the bill. This government will always stand up for working people. And we will do everything we can to ensure that no worker is injured or killed at work. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MS ORR (Yerrabi) (5.52): I seek leave to move amendments to this bill that have not been considered by the scrutiny committee.
Leave granted.
MS ORR: I move amendments Nos 1 to 3 circulated in my name together [see schedule 6 at page 1579]. I present a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments. As outlined in the supplementary explanatory statement, the government is moving these amendments as stakeholder concerns have been raised about the permanent nature outside the COVID-19 emergency of the amendments in part 3 of the bill relating to the Public Sector Management Act 1994. These amendments are being removed from the bill, with consequential amendments to the bill to effect their removal.
Amendments agreed to.
Bill, as a whole, as amended, agreed to.
Ordered that, pursuant to standing order 187, clause 14 be reconsidered.
Clause 14.
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