Page 442 - Week 03 - Tuesday, 13 March 2007
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vibrating lures used for greyhound training. They do not give an electric shock and therefore it is inappropriate for them to be identified within this schedule. The government will work cooperatively with Animal Welfare Advisory Committee and other jurisdictions to enforce this legislation through consultation processes and ensure that the ACT is in line with the other jurisdictions.
Finally, Mr Speaker, I would like to thank Lee-Anne Wahren and Yorka Stekovic from the Department of Territory and Municipal Services for the work that they have done in putting this bill forward. I will talk about the amendments in the detail stage. I commend the bill to the Assembly.
Question resolved in the affirmative.
Bill agreed to in principle.
Detail stage
Bill, by leave, taken as a whole.
MR HARGREAVES (Brindabella—Minister for the Territory and Municipal Services, Minister for Housing and Minister for Multicultural Affairs) (12.06): I seek leave to move amendments Nos 1 to 4 circulated in my name together.
Leave granted.
MR HARGREAVES: I move amendments Nos 1 to 4 circulated in my name together [see schedule 2 at page 493]. I table a supplementary explanatory statement to the amendments. Mr Speaker, division 6.2 of the bill outlines, among other things, the administrative processes involved in making an application for a trapping permit. The commencement of division 6.2 will be delayed and will commence on a day fixed by the minister by written notice. The authority is currently in the process of developing appropriate administrative systems to handle applications and the issuing of permits.
Section 19A of the bill outlines the medical and surgical procedures that veterinary surgeons can and cannot do. Currently one of the procedures that a veterinary surgeon can do for a “therapeutic purpose only” is to remove a dog’s dewclaws after four days after the dog was born. An amendment to section 19A of the bill was made to provide that a veterinary surgeon must not remove a dog’s dewclaws after four days after the dog was born for a purpose other than a “therapeutic” or “prophylactic” purpose. This will ensure that veterinary surgeons who remove a dog’s dewclaws after four days after the dog was born are only doing it for the remedial treatment of a disease or injury, which is the therapeutic bit, or for a preventative reason, which, as we all know, is the prophylactic bit.
Mrs Dunne: I knew that.
MR HARGREAVES: And we know that Mrs Dunne is an expert on the use of prophylactics for prevention.
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