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Legislative Assembly for the ACT: 1997 Week 9 Hansard (3 September) . . Page.. 2854 ..

Debate resumed from 26 June 1996, on motion by Ms Horodny:

That this Bill be agreed to in principle.

Question resolved in the affirmative.

Bill agreed to in principle.

Bill, by leave, taken as a whole

MR CORBELL (4.37): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 1, 2 and 3 together.

Leave granted.

MR CORBELL: I move:

Page 1, line 8, subclause 2(2), after "Section 4", insert ", in so far as it inserts section 24A in the Principal Act,".

Page 1, line 10, subclause 2(3), after "section 4", insert ", in so far as it inserts section 24A in the Principal Act,".

Page 1, line 13, subclause 2(4), after subclause (3), insert the following subclause:

"(4) Section 4, in so far as it inserts section 24B in the Principal Act, commences at the expiration of a period of 12 months after the day on which this Act is notified in the Gazette.".

These are consequential amendments. They deal primarily with the issue of putting in place the ban on the sale of battery eggs once mutual recognition has been obtained and once the six-year period has been put in place. That is the intent of the amendments, Mr Speaker.

MR HUMPHRIES (Attorney-General and Minister for the Environment, Land and Planning) (4.38): Mr Speaker, to some extent these amendments, as Mr Corbell has indicated, flow consequentially from the amendments to the earlier legislation. In particular, I do not have a great problem with the concept that the Government should decide on what the appropriate labelling arrangements are. They will obviously be put in

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