Cattle Compensation (Diseases) 1972
SWINE COMPENSATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL
SECOND READING SPEECH
The Hon. J. D. CORCORAN (Minister of Works): I move:
That this Bill be now read a second time.
This short Bill is intended to make an amendment to the principal Act, the Swine Compensation Act, 1936, as amended, as a consequence of the recent amendments to the Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Fund Act, Honourable members will recall that, following agreement between the States and the Commonwealth, it is proposed that swine fever will be included in the diseases in respect of which compensation under that Act will be payable.
Accordingly, clause 3 strikes out from the definition of disease in the principal Act the disease swine fever, since in the event of an outbreak of that disease the provisions of the Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Fund Act will apply and have effect. Clause 4 of the Bill recasts section 4a of the principal Act to ensure that specific diseases can by proclamation be added to or deleted from the list of diseases in respect of which compensation is payable. This should ensure that there will be maximum flexibility in the administration of the principal Act, which is desirable in measures of this nature. Clause 5 removes a further redundant reference to swine fever in section 8 of the principal Act.
Mr. FERGUSON secured the adjournment of the debate.
CATTLE COMPENSATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL
Second reading.
The Hon. J. D. CORCORAN (Minister of Works): I move:
That this Bill be now read a second time.
This short Bill is intended to amend section 4a of the principal Act. This section is, in terms, the same as section 4a of the Swine Compensation Act, which it is also proposed to amend, The purpose of the amendment is to ensure that maximum flexibility is obtained in the administration of the principal Act by ensuring that there will be no unnecessary delay in declaring a disease to be a disease in respect of which compensation is payable or in varying the list or description of the diseases to which the Act applies. Honourable members will appreciate the need for this flexibility in legislation of this nature and will recall that the principle was recently affirmed by this House in the passage of the Foot and Mouth Disease Eradication Fund Act Amendment Bill last year.
Dr. EASTICK secured the adjournment of the debate.
