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MADAM.SPEAKER, THE ANIMAL DISEASES BILL 199.3 WILL REPEAL THE STOCK DISEASES ACT 1933.

THE BILL HAS PROVISIONS FOR THE CONTROL OF BOTH ENDEMIC

....EXOTIC ANIMAL DISEASES IN THE ONE PIECE OF .

LEGISLATION..

ENACTMENT . . .

:.OF, EXOTIC ANIMAL DISEASES LEGISLATION-IN THE

A.C.T. TOGETHER WITH THE AVAILABILITY.OF AN EXOTIC ANIMAL

DISEASES EMERGENCY PLAN .MEETS AN. OBLIGATION TO THE

COMMONWEALTH, STATES AND THE NORTHERN TERRITORYAND

COMPLETES PREPAREDNESS FOR .CONTROLLING EXOTIC ANIMAL

"DISEASES .THROUGHOUT AUSTRALIA. THE A.C.T. HAS AGREED TO

THESE COMPONENTS WHICH WERE INCLUDED IN THE TERMS AND

CONDITIONS FOR COMPLIANCE WITH THE AUSTRALIANVETERINARY

EMERGENCY PLAN KNOWN AS THE AUSVETPLAN.

THE .. A. C. T. WILL NOW PARTICIPATE IN A COMMONWEALTH STATE

TERRITORY COST SHARING ARRANGEMENT.- UNDER THIS

ARRANGEMENT, THE-COMMONWEALTH WOULD CONTRIBUTE A-MAJOR

PROPORTION-OF.FUANDING FOR CONTROL.OF AN OUTBREAK.-OF ONE

OF ,THE 12 MAJOR. EXOTIC ANIMAL. DISEASES. ANYWHERE IN.

AUSTRALIA. THE STATES AND TERRITORIES CONTRIBUTE A

PROPORTION ON A FORMULA FOR EACH DISEASE BASED ON

SUSCEPTIBLE ANIMAL NUMBERS IN -A JURISDICTION AND/OR HUMAN -

POPULATION, WHERE HUMANS ARE ALSO SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE ..

DISEASE, FOR EXAMPLE IN THE CASE OF RABIES .

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