2016‑2017‑2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Export Control Amendment (Equine Live Export for Slaughter Prohibition) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Senators Rhiannon and Hinch)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Export Control Act 1982 to prohibit the export of live equines for slaughter, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1
2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Export Control Act 1982 3
Export Control Act 1982 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Export Control Act 1982 to prohibit the export of live equines for slaughter, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act is the Export Control Amendment (Equine Live Export for Slaughter Prohibition) Act 2018.
2 Commencement
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
| Commencement information |
| Column 1 | Column 2 | Column 3 |
| Provisions | Commencement | Date/Details |
| 1. Sections 1 to 3 and anything in this Act not elsewhere covered by this table | The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
| 2. Schedule 1 | The day after this Act receives the Royal Assent. | |
Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
3 Schedules
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Export Control Act 1982
Export Control Act 1982
1 After section 7
Insert:
7AB Prohibition of the export of live equines for slaughter
(1) In this section:
live equines for slaughter means horses, donkeys, mules and hinnies that are intended to be exported and slaughtered overseas.
start time means the start of the day immediately after the day this section commences.
(2) At and after the start time, the regulations are taken to have declared that live equines for slaughter are prescribed goods.
(3) At and after the start time, the regulations are taken to have prohibited absolutely the export of live equines for slaughter.