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COMMITTEE Report

The committee's report on the Bill was tabled on 8 May 2015. The Queensland Government's response to the Bill was tabled 21 May 2015. The Bill passed with amendment on 3 June 2015.

View: Report No. 2, 55th Parliament – Exhibited Animals Bill 2015
View: Queensland Government's response to the report

ABOUT THE BILL

On 27 March 2015, the Hon Bill Byrne MP, Minister for Agriculture and Fisheries and Minister for Sport and Racing introduced the Exhibited Animals Bill 2015. The Legislative Assembly subsequently referred the Bill to the committee for examination and report by 8 May 2015, in accordance with SO 131.

The stated policy objectives of the Bill are to:

• provide for exhibiting and dealing with exhibited animals, while ensuring that the associated animal welfare, biosecurity and safety risks and relevant adverse effects are prevented or minimised, and
• consolidate and streamline regulation of the industry, which is currently spread across several Acts with a cohesive, comprehensive and consistent risk-based regulatory framework for exhibited animals.

View:   Exhibited Animals Bill 2015
View:   Explanatory Notes
View:   Explanatory Speech

Additional departmental documents, provided by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, are available under the ‘related publications tab’.

submissions

Submissions close on 5 April 2015

Timeline

Public hearing         27 April 2015 - transcript
Public briefing        27 April 2015 - transcript
Report tabled           8 May 2015