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LOCAL GOVERNMENT (IMPLEMENTATION) BILL
Adjourned debated on second reading.
The Hon. IAN GILFILLAN: I indicate that the Democrats will support the second reading and, in fact, the bill's passage through the parliament. I have been assured by the minister's office that this bill contains only non-contentious implementation provisions which were previously part of the Statutes Repeal and Amendment (Local Government) Bill 1999. Members may recall that that bill was passed by the Legislative Council at the end of the budget session; however, the formal bill contained contentious provisions about road reopenings, among other things, which are now absent from the bill before us.
It appears to me that the bill before us does contain no more than the sort of technical provisions we would expect to see when such a large and important act as the Local Government Act 1934 is being replaced with the bill with which we dealt in the last session, and with the transitional processes required to move from one generation of local government legislation to the new. On that basis, as I said earlier, the Democrats are happy to assist the process and give local government in this state the certainty that it needs to plan for the commencement of the new act on 1 January 2000. We support the bill.
