Friday, 22 June 2001, 2:08 pm Press Release: ACT New Zealand
The Government needs to go back to the drawing board with
smoking legislation, ACT Internal Affairs Spokesman Penny
Webster said today.
"It is about time the Government
starts listening to the hundreds of business people who are
going to be affected by these fundamentally flawed
laws.
"The further delays announced by Judy Keall
prove that they haven't got it right. The anomalies
affecting pubs - and now, it appears, clubs as well - show
that it is ill-conceived legislation. We support
HANZ CEO Bruce Robertson, and Clubs New Zealand CEO
Roger Parton in their call for the legislation to be
redrafted.
"There are other ways to achieve what the
Government is trying to achieve, and these should be looked
at. Restrictive and draconian legislation never works,"
Penny Webster said.
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