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PARLIAMENT OF NEW SOUTH WALES LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 1993 THIRD SESSION OF THE FIFTIETH PARLIAMENT ___________________ NOTICES OF MOTIONS AND ORDERS OF THE DAY No. 29 THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 1993 ___________________ BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE NOTICES OF MOTIONS___ 1 Mr WEST to move___ That the following papers be printed___ Environmental Impact Statement Strategy Progress Report from the Foresty Commission pursuant to the Timber Industry (Interim Protection) Act 1992, dated 28 June 1993. Report of the New South Wales Treasury Corporation for the year ended 30 June 1993. Page 536 2 Mr WEST to move___ That the Sessional Orders in relation to the following subjects be amended as indicated___ CONSIDERATION OF URGENT MATTERS That the Sessional Order___Consideration of Urgent Matters___be amended as follows: (1) Delete paragraph (3). (2) Paragraph (4) be amended to read: "Members giving such notices shall be permitted to make a statement limited to five minutes so the House may establish whether the matter should proceed or if more than one matter, their priority". (3) Paragraph (5) be amended to read: "At the conclusion of any five minute statement the Speaker shall put the question, 'That the notice for urgent consideration of the Honourable Member for ........ be proceeded with'". (4) New paragraph (b) to be added: "If more than one notice has been given, the Speaker shall put the question in the order the notices were given". (5) Existing paragraph (7), insert "substantive" before "motion". QUESTIONS ON NOTICE That the Sessional Order___Questions on Notice___be amended as follows: To paragraph (c), add: "Each calendar day upon which Estimates Committees sit shall be deemed to be sitting days for the purposes of answers under this Sessional Order". Page 537 LEGISLATION COMMITTEES That the Sessional Order___Legislation Committees___be amended in paragraph (1) to read: "(1) Upon a motion being agreed to for the second reading of a bill any Member may move forthwith and without notice, "That the (name of the bill) be referred to a Legislation Committee for consideration and report to the House on such amendments as it considers should be proposed to the Committee of the Whole on that bill". ESTIMATES COMMITTEES That the Sessional Order___Estimates Committees___be amended by inserting after "Appropriation Bill" where secondly occurring "and the Parliamentary Appropriation Bill". 3 Mr WEST to move___ That, in accordance with the Sessional Order on Estimates Committees: (1) The following Estimates Committees are appointed: 1. The Legislature Estimates Committee; 2. Premier and Minister for Economic Development Estimates Committee; 3. Treasurer and Arts Estimates Committee; 4. Agriculture and Fisheries and Mines Estimates Committee; 5. Attorney General and Justice Estimates Committee; 6. Chief Secretary and Administrative Services Estimates Committee; 7. Community Services and Aboriginal Affairs Estimates Committee; 8. Consumer Affairs Estimates Committee; 9. Education and Youth Affairs and Tourism Estimates Committee; 10. Environment Estimates Committee; 11. Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Estimates Committee; Page 538 12. Health Estimates Committee; 13. Industrial Relations and Employment and Status of Women Estimates Committee; 14. Police and Emergency Services Estimates Committee; 15. Energy and Local Government and Co-operatives Estimates Committee; 16. Land and Water Conservation Estimates Committee; 17. Planning and Housing Estimates Committee; 18. Public Works and Ports Estimates Committee; 19. Sport, Recreation and Racing Estimates Committee; 20. Transport and Roads Estimates Committee; and 21. Small Business and Regional Development Estimates Committee; (2) The clauses and items of the Appropriation Bill and the Parliamentary Appropriation Bill set out in Schedule 1 to this motion be referred to the Estimates Committees as set out in that Schedule. (3) The Committees shall have power to send for and examine persons, papers, records and things and to report from time to time. (4) The quorum of an Estimates Committee shall be eight members provided that the Committees meet as Joint Committees at all times. (5) The Chairman of an Estimates Committee shall exercise a deliberative vote and, in the event of an equality of votes, a casting vote. (6) A Chairman may from time to time appoint another member to act as Deputy Chairman and the member so appointed shall act as Chairman when the Chairman is not present at a meeting of the Committee. In the event of absence of both the Chairman and the Deputy Chairman, a member of the Committee shall be elected by the members present to act as Chairman for that meeting. (7) The proceedings of the Committees shall be open to the public unless otherwise ordered by the Committees. Page 539 (8) The Legislative Assembly membership of the Committees (5 Government members, 3 Opposition members and 1 Independent member) be notified to the Clerk of the Legislative Assembly by the Government and Opposition Whips. The Government Whip shall nominate the Independent member. (9) The Clerk of the Legislative Assembly shall arrange the places for meetings of the Committees and to notify, formally, the Members of the Committees of the times and places for said meetings. (10) The Chairmen of the Estimates Committees be as follows - The Legislature Estimates Committee - Mr Jeffery Premier and Minister for Economic Development Estimates Committee - Mr Yabsley Treasurer and Arts Estimates Committee - Mr Zammit Agriculture and Fisheries and Mines Estimates Committee - Mr Small Attorney General and Justice Estimates Committee - Mr Kerr Chief Secretary and Administrative Services Estimates Committee - Mr Kinross Community Services and Aboriginal Affairs Estimates Committee - Mr Rixon Consumer Affairs Estimates Committee - Mr Bull Education and Youth Affairs and Tourism Estimates Committee - Mr O'Doherty Environment Estimates Committee - Mr Ryan Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Estimates Committee - Mr Samios Health Estimates Committee - Mr Glachan Industrial Relations and Employment and Status of Women Estimates Committee - Mrs Forsythe Police and Emergency Services Estimates Committee - Mr Mutch Energy and Local Government and Co-operatives Estimates Committee - Mr Turner Land and Water Conservation Estimates Committee - Mr Cochran Planning and Housing Estimates Committee - Mr D.L. Page Page 540 Public Works and Ports Estimates Committee - Mr Beck Sport, Recreation and Racing Estimates Committee - Mr Petch Transport and Roads Estimates Committee - Mr Merton Small Business and Regional Development Estimates Committee - Mr Fraser (11) In an Estimates Committee___ (a) the responsible Minister shall be present at all times; (b) the Chairman shall call over the estimates for each ministry and declare the proposed expenditure open for examination; (c) the question shall be proposed for each organisational unit "That the Votebe recommended"; (d) the proceedings of a Committee shall be recorded by Hansard. (e) the Clerk shall prepare minutes of meetings which shall be signed by the Clerk and the Chairman. (12) During the conduct of the Estimates Committees questions be limited to a maximum of one minute and replies be limited to a maximum of five minutes. (13) When each area of Estimates in the first Schedule is commenced the period set aside shall be equally apportioned between Government and non-Government Members. The Chairman of the Committee shall permit non-Government Members to question the Minister for the first twenty minutes: Government Members for the next twenty minutes and so on in rotation until the expiration of the allocated time. (14) When consideration of the Estimates of each ministry is commenced, the Chairman of the Committee shall permit three questions from Government Members and then three questions from non- Government Members with such questions alternating in groups of three until time for consideration of the area of Estimates is expired. (15) Advisers who are present at an Estimates Committee to assist Ministers and the Presiding Officers (in the case of the Estimates of The Legislature) may address a Committee or answer questions if referred to them by a Minister or the Presiding Officers as the case may be. (16) The proceedings of a Committee shall be regarded as proceedings of the Parliament. Page 541 (17) The Report of each Estimates Committee shall state whether the Votesof each organisational unit in the Estimates and the corresponding clauses and schedules in the Appropriation Bill are recommended or otherwise. The failure of an Estimates Committee to report on any part of the votes shall be deemed to be a report recommending the proposed expenditure. (18) Upon conclusion of its deliberations and after the question on the second reading of the Appropriation Bill and the Parliamentary Appropriation Bill has been agreed to, the Chairman of each Estimates Committee, or a Member deputed by the Chairman, shall present the Committee's Report to the Speaker in the House. The Reports shall be set down for consideration in Committee of the Whole House on the Appropriation Bill and the Parliamentary Appropriation Bill respectively. Consideration of a Report in the Committee of the Whole House shall be deemed to be consideration of those clauses and schedules of the Appropriation Bill and the Parliamentary Appropriation Bill referred to that Estimates Committee. (19) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the Standing or Sessional Orders, Ministers may indicate to Estimates Committees