Bill
Live Animal Export (Slaughter) Prohibition Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25.
- Sponsor
- Faruqi
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-04
- second reading — 2019-07-04
- other — 2022-07-25
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 2019-07-04.
The bill would ban exporting live animals from Australia for slaughter.
It would make it illegal to export livestock for slaughter, starting two years after the law begins.
The ban applies to cattle, calves, sheep, lambs, goats, and other prescribed animals.
- The bill amends the Export Control Act 1982.
- It makes the export of livestock for slaughter unlawful.
- It defines livestock for slaughter as animals intended to be exported and killed overseas.
- It provides that regulations are taken to have declared livestock for slaughter as prescribed goods.
- It provides that regulations are taken to have absolutely prohibited the export of livestock for slaughter.
Exporters of live animals for slaughter.
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