Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (9), as circulated, together.

Leave granted.

by leave—I move:

(1)   Clause 8, page 7 (line 8), after “prescribed”, insert “as exempt”.

(2)   Clause 9, page 7 (line 17), after “prescribed”, insert “as exempt”.

(3)   Clause 12, page 9 (line 7), at the end of the clause, add:

  ; and (d)   the thing is not prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

(4)   Clause 13, page 9 (line 16), at the end of the clause, add:

  ; and (d)   the thing is not prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

(5)   Clause 15, page 11 (line 21), after “prescribed”, insert “as exempt”.

(6)   Clause 15, page 11 (line 23), after “prescribed”, insert “as exempt”.

(7)   Clause 15, page 11 (line 24), at the end of subclause (1), add:

  ; and (f)   the raw log is not of a kind prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

(8)   Clause 17, page 13 (line 20), at the end of subclause (1), add:

  ; and (d)   the raw log is not of a kind prescribed as exempt by the regulations for the purposes of this paragraph.

(9)   Clause 18, page 14 (line 24), after “industry”, insert “or certifying”.

The government is proposing a small number of minor drafting amendments to ensure clarity and consistency in the bill. These amendments do not affect the policy intent or objective of the bill but are necessary to ensure that clauses in the bill are interpreted correctly once it becomes law. The purpose of the proposed amendments is to provide clarity on how timber products can be exempt from the prohibitions in clauses 8, 9, 12, 13, 15 and 17 and to ensure that such exemption provisions are consistent throughout the bill.

The proposed amendments also rectify a drafting inconsistency in the due diligence requirements for processors of domestic logs in clause 18 to make them consistent with the due diligence requirements for importers of regulated timber products in clause 14.

Question agreed to.

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