Senate debates

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Bills

Criminal Code Amendment (Agricultural Protection) Bill 2019; In Committee

1:22 pm

Photo of Bridget McKenzieBridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) | Hansard source

I know who Jigglypuff and Charizard are, so I know they're not real. But, Senator, I gave you the answer. Just so that you know, if you open the bill to page 4, subdivision J, proposed section 474.46—'Using a carriage service for inciting trespass on agricultural land'—you've got to do the transmission over the carriage service:

(d) the offender is reckless as to whether:

(i) the trespass … could cause detriment to a primary production business that is being carried on on the agricultural land.

So they would have to be not just heading onto a private property to capture Jigglypuff; it's actually to cause detriment to the agricultural productive capacity of the private property.

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