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2011
THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA
SENATE
Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2011
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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
(Circulated by the authority of Senator Siewert)
Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2011
OUTLINE
The Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2011 amends the Export
Control Act 1982 to prohibit the export of live animals for slaughter.
The bill contains provisions that will make it unlawful to export from
Australia livestock for slaughter.
NOTES ON CLAUSES
Clause 1 - Short Title
1. This is a formal provision specifying the short title of the bill.
Clause 2 - Commencement
2. This provides for the commencement of the Act. It provides that the
substantive provisions of the Act will commence the day after the Act
receives Royal Assent.
Clause 3 - Schedule(s)
3. This clause provides that an Act that is specified in a Schedule is
amended or repealed as set out in that Schedule, and any other item in a
Schedule operates according to its terms.
Schedule 1 - Item 1
4. This item inserts a new section 7AA which provides in subsection (1)
definitions of live-stock and live-stock for slaughter to limit the
application of the section to live-stock, as defined in section 3 of the
Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997 as cattle, calves, sheep,
lambs, goats or other prescribed animals, that is intended to be exported
and slaughtered overseas.
5. Subsection (2) provides that the regulations are taken to have declared
live-stock for slaughters as prescribed goods under the Export Control Act.
Subsection (3) provides that the regulations are taken to have prohibited
absolutely the export of live-stock for slaughter.