Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Minister for Resources and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move amendments (1) and (2) on sheet ZA494 together:

(1) Clause 3, page 2 (line 19), at the end of the clause, add:

; and (c) to ensure that live-stock export officials, in performing functions and exercising powers, consider the welfare of animals in Australia's live-stock exports.

(2) Clause 10, page 7 (after line 2), after subclause (1), insert:

(1A) In conducting a review under subsection (1), the Inspector-General must consider the welfare of animals in relation to Australia's live-stock exports.

There are two amendments. One provides for an explicit mention of animal welfare in this bill, and the other amendment inserts a subclause into clause 10 that will provide that the matters the inspector-general must consider in the conduct of review include the welfare of animals in relation to the export of livestock.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: I invite you to table the supplementary explanatory memorandum.

I also table a supplementary explanatory memorandum to those amendments.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: The question is that the amendments moved by the government be agreed to.

Question agreed to.