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LIVE ANIMAL EXPORT (SLAUGHTER) PROHIBITION BILL 2012
2010-2011-2012
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Live Animal Export (Slaughter)
Prohibition Bill 2012
No. , 2012
(Senator Rhiannon)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Export Control Act
1982 to prohibit the export of live animals for
slaughter, and for related purposes
Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2012 No. , 2012 i
Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendment of the Export Control Act 1982
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Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2012 No. , 2012 1
A Bill for an Act to amend the Export Control Act
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1982 to prohibit the export of live animals for
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slaughter, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act may be cited as the Live Animal Export (Slaughter)
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Prohibition Act 2012.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provision(s)
Commencement
Date/Details
1. Sections 1 to 3
and anything in
this Act not
elsewhere covered
by this table
The day this Act receives the Royal Assent.
2. Schedule 1
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedule(s)
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Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendment of the Export Control Act 1982 Schedule 1
Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2012 No. , 2012 3
Schedule 1--Amendment of the Export
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Control Act 1982
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1 After section 7
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Insert:
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7AA Prohibition of the export of live-stock for slaughter
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(1) In this section:
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live-stock has the same meaning as in section 3 of the Australian
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Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997.
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live-stock for slaughter means live-stock that is intended to be
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exported and slaughtered overseas.
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(2) The regulations are taken to have declared that live-stock for
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slaughter are prescribed goods.
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(3) The regulations are taken to have prohibited absolutely the export
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of live-stock for slaughter.
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