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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 2000 Week 11 Hansard (28 November) . . Page.. 3344 ..


Clauses 142 to 146, by leave, taken together and agreed to.

Clause 147.

MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (5.47): I move:

No 29-

Page 70, line 32, insert at the end the following new subclause:

"(2) The regulations may create offences for contraventions of the regulations and prescribe penalties of not more than 10 penalty units for offences against the regulations.".

This amendment provides for the regulation-making power of the bill.

Amendment agreed to.

Clause 147, as amended, agreed to.

Remainder of bill, by leave, taken as a whole and agreed to.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

ANIMAL WELFARE AMENDMENT BILL 2000

Debate resumed from 7 September 2000, on motion by Mr Smyth:

That this bill be agreed to in principle.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Detail Stage

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.

MR SMYTH (Minister for Urban Services) (5.48): I move:

Clause 6, page 4, line 12, proposed new subsection 15A (1), omit "on the open back of", substitute "in or on".

This amendment clarifies how you restrain a dog in a vehicle. It is not limited to the back of a ute, for instance. It includes dogs in or on a vehicle.

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the amendment.

Amendment agreed to.


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