Bill
Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01.
- Sponsor
- Lee Rhiannon
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-06-21
- second reading — 2017-06-21
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-06-21.
The bill would ban sending live animals from Australia to be killed overseas.
It changes the Export Control Act 1982 to make exporting livestock for slaughter illegal two years after the law starts.
The ban would begin the day after the bill receives Royal Assent, with a two-year delay before it takes full effect.
- The bill makes it unlawful to export livestock for slaughter.
- The bill sets the ban to start two years after the law begins.
- The bill amends the Export Control Act 1982.
Exporters of live animals for slaughter would be affected.
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