Page 1686 - Week 06 - Thursday, 13 August 1992
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MR HUMPHRIES: I hope Mr Lamont will accept my advice and withdraw his Bill.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! I am the Speaker.
MR HUMPHRIES: Madam Speaker, I hope Mr Lamont will accept my advice, as he said he would readily do, and withdraw his Bill.
Mr Lamont: Madam Speaker, you can rest assured that on this matter I will not.
MR HUMPHRIES: I did not think so.
Mr Berry: This is silly, Gary. Get on to something more rational; otherwise the gag will come out again. This is silly.
MR HUMPHRIES: It is not silly. It is a perfectly good point.
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Continue with the debate, please.
Mr Connolly: Paragraph 8(2)(e) covers killing causing unnecessary pain.
MR HUMPHRIES: With the greatest respect, an animal could be killed without causing any pain at all.
Mr Connolly: Quite so; and that is lawful, if it is your animal.
MR HUMPHRIES: No, I did not say anything about it being my animal. For example, if I were able to shoot a bird, killing it instantly, without any pain at all - - -
Mr Connolly: There would be some wildlife offences there, and the use of a firearm.
MR HUMPHRIES: All right, suppose that I kill somebody else's bird.
Mr Connolly: If you execute the chook in the backyard - - -
MADAM SPEAKER: Order! Mr Humphries, you have the floor. Please continue to talk about amendment 16.
MR HUMPHRIES: Thank you; I will, Madam Speaker. I am talking about this provision relating to pain to animals and surgical procedures. I am directed by the Minister to paragraph 8(2)(e), which mentions, "A person in charge of an animal ...". If I get out an air rifle and put a pellet - - -
Mr Berry: If you do not have a licence for it, you have broken the law.
MR HUMPHRIES: Suppose that I have a licence for my air rifle, and I put a bullet through the head of the chook next door - - -
Mr Berry: You cannot discharge it near a public place, so you are in trouble there straightaway. You have committed an offence. You have committed a couple so far.
MR HUMPHRIES: That is not the point. Suppose that someone is running their dog in the countryside, a public place, where I am allowed to shoot my gun.
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