House of Assembly - Fifty-First Parliament, Third Session (51-3)
2009-04-29 Daily Xml

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PETROLEUM PRODUCTS SUBSIDY ACT REPEAL BILL

Second Reading

Adjourned debate on second reading.

(Continued from 8 April 2009. Page 2337.)

Mr WILLIAMS (MacKillop) (12:47): This is a minor matter, and I will take very little of the house's time. The opposition supports the bill. The bill simply repeals the Petroleum Products Subsidy Act which was an act of the parliament to give the machinery to allow the disbursement of funds paid as a subsidy from the commonwealth government for transport of fuel to remote communities in South Australia. The commonwealth no longer provides funds via that scheme and, as a consequence, the act is redundant. The opposition supports the repeal of the act.

The Hon. P.F. CONLON (Elder—Minister for Transport, Minister for Infrastructure, Minister for Energy) (12:48): I thank the opposition for that support.

Bill read a second time and taken through its remaining stages.