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appointed. The registrar will issue directions relating to the transport, use, storage and disposal of pesticides. It will be an offence to sell, supply, use, transport, process or dispose of an unregistered pesticide.
The registrar will be able to issue permits so that pesticides may be used in emergencies or for research. The Bill will require pesticides to be used strictly in accordance with instructions on the registered label. The criterion for registration is that a pesticide is registered for use in Victoria and/or New South Wales.
It is not intended that this Bill provide legislative control over pest control operators. In anticipation of the legislation, a register of pesticides, based on the New South Wales register, has already been created. I now present the explanatory memorandum for the Bill.
Debate (on motion by Mr Humphries) adjourned.
SOCIAL WELFARE MINISTERS CONFERENCE
Ministerial Statement and Paper
Debate resumed from 28 June 1989, on motion by Mr Berry:
That the Assembly takes note of the following paper:
Social Welfare Ministers Conference, 9 June 1989 - Ministerial statement, 28 June 1989.
Mr Kaine: I rise on a point of order, Mr Speaker. Is order of the day No. 1 not the Police Offences (Amendment) Bill?
MR SPEAKER: No. We are still on government business, Mr Kaine.
Mr Kaine: You must have a good piece of paper that I do not have, because I have nothing else about order of the day No. 1 except on the notice paper for today. That is what I have, and it reads Police Offences (Amendment) Bill.
MR SPEAKER: It is on page 34, orders of the day.
MR MOORE (3.37): I must say, Mr Speaker, that as part of the learning curve I had not realised that this was to come on today, so my preparation for my speech is not as it might otherwise have been. However, my main purpose in moving the adjournment was to endorse the comments that the Minister made about the social welfare Ministers conference and to look forward to a time when we can have an opportunity to discuss with the Minister, as he has shown that he is prepared to do at times, the sorts of issues that will come up in such discussions so that he can go to those discussions prepared with an overview of what each of the parties is interested in achieving.
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