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Explanatory note
This explanatory note relates to this Bill as introduced into Parliament.
Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the proposed Act on the date of
assent.
Clause 3 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendments to the Stock
Diseases Act 1923 as set out in Schedule 1 .
Clause 4 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendment to the Stock
Diseases (Nominations and Elections) Regulation 1995 as set out in
Schedule 2.
Clause 5 is a formal provision giving effect to the amendment to the Rural
Lands Protection Act I989 as set out in Schedule 3.
Schedule 1 Amendment of Stock Diseases Act 1923
The Stock Diseases Act I923 establishes the Board of Tick Control, which
has the functions of making recommendations to the Minister on matters
relating to the control and eradication of cattle tick, including the
proclamation of quarantine areas, and advising the Minister on
referred to the Board by the Minister.
At present, the membership of the Board includes 6 elected members who
must be owners of stock within quarantine areas declared as such on account
of the presence or suspected presence of cattle tick.
The amendment to the Stock Diseases Act 1923 made by Schedule 1 [l]
removes the reference to quarantine areas from the provision setting out who
is eligible to be a member of the Board. As a result, any person who is the
owner of stock kept within an electoral district is eligible for election as a
member of the Board of Tick Control (in accordance with the regulations).
The transitional provisions (inserted in the Stock Diseases Act 1923 by
Schedule 1 [3]) provide for the discontinuation of any election of stock
owner members that is in progress when the proposed Act commences, so as
to allow for the conduct of a new election based on the new qualifications to
nominate and vote. The term of office of existing Board members is
continued for 4 months to allow time for such an election to be held. The
transitional provisions also save existing boundaries of electoral districts, set
by a Ministerial order under the Stock Diseases (Nominations and Elections)
Regulation 1995, (without affecting the ability of the Minister to make a
subsequent order constituting different electoral districts) and provide that the
appointment of existing members of the Board of Tick Control is unaffected
by the enactment of the proposed Act. Schedule 1 [2] inserts a power to
make regulations of a savings or transitional nature consequent on the
enactment of the proposed Act.
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Schedule 2 Amendment of Stock Diseases (Nominations and
Elections) Regulation 1995
The amendment to the Stock Diseases (Nominations and Elections)
Regulation 1995 made by Schedule 2 prescribes the qualifications for
nominating a candidate, being nominated as a candidate and voting, for the
purpose of the election of a stock owner member of the Board of Tick
Control. Under the new provision, any person who owns, or has within the
last 12 months owned, cattle kept in an electoral district to which the election
relates can nominate a candidate, run for or vote in such an election.
Schedule 3 Amendment of Rural Lands Protection Act 1989
Sections 57 and 58 of the Rural Lands Protection Act 1989 impose
obligations on occupiers of certain land to provide rural lands protection
boards with certain information. The amendment to that Act made by
Schedule 3 amends that Act so as to allow for the information to be used in
the preparation of rolls for the conduct of elections under the Stock Diseases
Act 1923.
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