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MR LAMONT (5.28): I move:
Page 22, line 25, add at the end the following subclauses:
"(3) A person shall not conduct a circus using a prohibited circus animal.
Penalty: $10,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.
"(4) A person shall not import a prohibited circus animal into the Territory as part of a circus troupe, whether or not for the purpose of using the animal in the circus.
Penalty for contravention of subsection (4): $10,000 or imprisonment for 1 year, or both.".
Madam Speaker, this subclause will provide for penalties should a person breach the provisions of clause 4 of the Bill that was agreed to in the Assembly on Wednesday.
MR STEVENSON (5.29): I think this is relevant. At 3.30 pm today I received a statement from Mr Vladimir Orlov of the USSR, now Russian, Trade Consulate. He confirmed that, as a matter of policy, the Moscow Circus never appears without performing animals. The statement is that it never has. In 1990-91 there were as many as 23 Moscow circuses touring the world at any one time. Not one was allowed to perform without performing animals. In addition, there were many troupes of stars of the Moscow Circus. These were allowed to perform without their own performing animals, but generally performed in programs with performing animals from other countries. That is an interesting point to raise.
Amendment agreed to.
Clause, as amended, agreed to.
Proposed new clause 51A
MR LAMONT (5.30): I move:
Page 22, line 25, after clause 51, insert the following new clause:
Regulations - prohibited circus animals
"51A. The regulations may prescribe an animal for the purpose of paragraph (c) of the definition of 'prohibited circus animal' in section 4.".
MR CORNWELL (5.31): I would like an explanation of what this means, Madam Speaker. I think I have a fair idea, but I would like to hear Mr Lamont explain it to us.
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