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LIVESTOCK EXPORT (ANIMAL WELFARE CONDITIONS) BILL 2012
2010-2011-2012
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Livestock Export (Animal Welfare
Conditions) Bill 2012
No. , 2012
(Mr Wilkie)
A Bill for an Act to regulate the export of live
animals for slaughter, and for related purposes
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Contents
1 Short
title
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2 Commencement
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3 Schedule(s)
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997
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Livestock Export (Animal Welfare Conditions) Bill 2012 No. , 2012 1
A Bill for an Act to regulate the export of live
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animals for 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 Livestock Export (Animal Welfare
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Conditions) Act 2012.
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2 Commencement
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This Act commences on the day after this Act receives the Royal
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Assent.
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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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule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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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997
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1 Section 7
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Insert:
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treated humanely, in relation to live-stock, means:
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(a) kept in accordance with standards equivalent to Standards
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3.1, 3.2, 3.4, 3.5, 3.7(a), 3.7(b), 3.7(e), 3.7(f), 3.7(g), 3.7(h),
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3.11, 3.14, 3.16 and 3.17 of the Australian Standards for the
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Export of Livestock (Version 2.3) 2011, published by the
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Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; and
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(b) transported in accordance with the Terrestrial Animal Health
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Code published by the World Organisation for Animal
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Health; and
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(c) slaughtered in accordance with clauses 7.9 to 7.12 of the
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Australian standard for the hygienic production and
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transportation of meat and meat products for human
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consumption (AS 4696:2007).
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2 After section 17
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Insert:
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17A Secretary must make orders and give directions to prevent
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inhumane treatment
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If the Secretary has reasonable grounds to believe that live-stock
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exported under a live-stock export licence to a particular country or
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place is not being treated humanely in that country or place, the
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Secretary must make such orders and give such directions under
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section 17 as are necessary to ensure that either:
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(a) live-stock exported under a live-stock export licence is
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treated humanely in that country or place; or
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(b) live-stock is not exported under a live-stock export licence to
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that country or place.
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Note 1:
For treated humanely, see section 7.
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Note 2:
The holder of a live-stock export licence is obliged to give the
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Secretary any evidence the holder has that would reasonably suggest
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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that live-stock exported under the licence is not being treated
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humanely in a country or place to which the live-stock is exported: see
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section 55A.
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3 After section 55
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Insert:
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55A Requirement to notify inhumane treatment of live-stock
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exported
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The holder of a live-stock export licence commits an offence if the
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holder:
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(a) has evidence that would reasonably suggest that live-stock
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exported under the licence is not being treated humanely in a
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country or place to which the live-stock is exported; and
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(b) fails to give the Secretary written notice of that evidence.
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Penalty: 50 penalty units.
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4 Application
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(1)
The amendments made by this Schedule do not apply during the
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transitional period in relation to live-stock exported under both:
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(a) an export licence granted before the beginning of the
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transitional period; and
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(b) a contract entered into before the beginning of the transitional
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period.
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(2)
In this item:
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transitional period means the period of 6 months that begins when this
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Schedule commences.
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