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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 3 Hansard (10 April) . . Page.. 898 ..

MS HORODNY (continuing):

I am pleased to accept Mr Humphries's letter to the task force to ensure that they do look at those issues and report on them. I am not sure of the timeframe between the draft report and the final report, but I presume it will be a couple of months or so. I will be looking out for the final report. I hope that these issues of how to implement the property management agreements - issues that I have been pushing for long and hard since I have been in this place - are given the serious consideration that they need.

Proposed new clauses negatived.

Clause 5

Amendments (by Mr Humphries, by leave) agreed to:

Page 2, lines 19 and 20, omit "After section 254 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted", substitute "Before section 255 of the Principal Act the following section is inserted in Division 3 of Part VI".

Page 2, line 22, omit "254A", substitute "254".

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.05): Mr Speaker, I move:

Page 2, line 27, after proposed subsection 254(2) insert the following proposed subsections:

"(2A) The Minister shall not make a declaration under subsection (1) unless the Minister has consulted with -

(a) the Flora and Fauna Committee established under the Nature Conservation Act 1980; and

(b) in relation to a declaration proposed to be made under paragraph (1)(a) - the Animal Welfare Advisory Committee established under the Animal Welfare Act 1992.

"(2B) After making a declaration under subsection (1), the Minister -

(a) shall cause to be prepared a plan for the control of the propagation of animals or plants of the relevant class; and

(b) if the declaration was made under paragraph (1)(a) - may cause to be prepared a code of practice under the Animal Welfare Act 1992 in relation to the animals of the relevant class.

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