Page 1590 - Week 06 - Wednesday, 12 August 1992
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ANIMAL WELFARE BILL 1992
Detail Stage
Clause 5
Debate resumed from 11 August 1992.
Clause agreed to.
Clause 6
MR WOOD (Minister for Education and Training, Minister for the Arts and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.24): I move:
Page 6, line 12, add at the end the following subclause:
"(4) The Authority shall issue to his or her delegate an identity card specifying the delegate's name and delegation, and on which appears a recent photograph of the delegate.".
I present an additional explanatory memorandum for that. Madam Speaker, this simply specifies quite clearly that an inspector will have an identification card.
Mr Cornwell: Why did you not put it in the original Bill?
MR WOOD: To answer the interjection, a number of these amendments that I am proposing arise from recommendations of the Scrutiny of Bills Committee.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Clause 7
MR WESTENDE (4.25), by leave: I move:
Page 6, line 17, omit the penalty, substitute "$5,000 or imprisonment for 6 months, or both".
Page 6, add at the end the following new subclause:
"(2) For the purpose of this Bill, a person commits an act of cruelty upon an animal if -
(a) he/she wounds, mutilates, tortures, overrides, overdrives, overworks, abuses, worries, torments or terrifies an animal;
(b) he/she knowingly overloads or overcrowds an animal;
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