Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2004

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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 2) 2003
Type: Government
Portfolio: Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Act
Parliament no: 40

Summary

Amends the Quarantine Act 1908 to: extend the application of the Act to Christmas Island; improve arrangements for the payment of fees; broaden the range of persons who may be appointed as quarantine officers; and make clarifying amendments; Imported Food Control Act 1992 to: insert an objective into the Act; provide for the use of agreements; and allow for the importation of food that does not meet applicable labelling standards, but create an offence if that food is sold by the importer without corrected labelling; and Pig Industry Act 2001 and Wool Services Privatisation Act 2000 to allow Australian Pork Limited and Australian Wool Innovation Limited to carry forward research and development expenditure eligible for Commonwealth matching contributions from one financial year to the next.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	29 May 2002
Second reading moved	29 May 2002
Second reading agreed to	02 Dec 2003
Consideration in detail debate Amendment details: 2 Government agreed to	02 Dec 2003
Third reading agreed to	02 Dec 2003

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	10 Feb 2004
Second reading moved	10 Feb 2004
Second reading agreed to	11 Feb 2004
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 2 Opposition agreed to	11 Feb 2004
Committee of the Whole debate Amendment details: 12 Opposition agreed to	01 Mar 2004
Third reading agreed to	01 Mar 2004

House of Representatives
Message from Senate reported	02 Mar 2004
Consideration of Senate message Details: House disagreed to Senate amendments and made amendments in place thereof	30 Mar 2004

Senate
Message from House of Reps reported	31 Mar 2004
Consideration of House of Reps message Details: Senate did not insist on its amendments, and agreed to the replacement amendments made by the House with 3 Opposition amendments	01 Apr 2004

House of Representatives
Consideration of Senate message Details: House agreed to Senate amendments to its amendments	01 Apr 2004


Assent Act no.: 54 Year: 2004	27 Apr 2004

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Text of bill

First reading

Third reading

Explanatory memoranda

Explanatory memorandum

Further supplementary explanatory memorandum

Revised explanatory memorandum

Supplementary explanatory memorandum

Transcript of speeches

Proposed amendments

House of representatives

Government [sheet QJ226]

Government [sheet RE251]

Senate

Opposition [sheet 4213]
O'BRIEN, Kerry

Opposition [sheet 4141 revised]
O'BRIEN, Kerry

Schedules of amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate to House of Representatives amendments

Schedule of the amendments made by the Senate

Bills digest

Bills Digest

Notes

An electronic version of this Act is available on the Federal Register of Legislation (www.legislation.gov.au)

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Revised explanatory memorandum: Accompanies and explains the amended version (third reading) of the bill. It supersedes the explanatory memorandum.

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