Page 1048 - Week 04 - Thursday, 18 June 1992
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ADJOURNMENT
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! It being 4.30 pm, I propose the question:
That the Assembly do now adjourn.
Mr Berry: I require the question to be put forthwith without debate.
Question resolved in the negative.
DOG CONTROL (AMENDMENT) BILL 1992
Debate resumed.
MR WOOD: That brief respite has not enabled me to retrieve the letter that I received from the RSPCA. By interjection, Mr Westende might indicate whether that related to the Animal Welfare Act or the Dog Control Act.
Mr De Domenico: Both.
MR WOOD: Both. I had a letter from the same person and I said, "Good. It is nice to get some praise from time to time". I cannot really answer Mr Humphries's query there.
Mr De Domenico: He praised you for consulting on the Animal Welfare Act but not on the Dog Control Act, as I understand it.
MR WOOD: I will get it back and have a look at it to see whether it is the same letter that he sent to everybody. If there is a comment in it about the dog control legislation, then my explanation to this Assembly about that might also satisfy Mr Turner. I am informed that the RSPCA supported the original Dog Control Bill - yes, certainly they did, last year - and we have that letter from them, but that was last year. I will dig that up and keep members informed.
Let me repeat that these amendments today are because of consultation. In no way are we stopping those things. We will continue to talk to groups; but it, I suppose, is extended consultation, if you like, from that Act that was put into place last year. I thank the Liberals for their comments earlier and their indication of support in principle and I think, with that explanation, you might allow it to pass today.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
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