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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Act
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Act No. 11/2000
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Section Page
1. Purposes 1
2. Commencement 2
3. Principal Act 2
4. Codes of Practice 2
5. Dogs on moving vehicles 2
6. New Part 5 inserted 3
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NOTES 4
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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(Amendment) Act 2000 †
[Assented to 18 April 2000]
The Parliament of Victoria enacts as follows:
1. Purposes
The purposes of this Act are to amend the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 to—
(a) make further provision for the offence in
relation to the carrying of dogs, while
unrestrained, on certain vehicles on
highways; and
(b) amend the method of making Codes of
Practice.
Victoria
No. 11 of 2000
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2. Commencement
This Act comes into operation on the day after the
day on which it receives the Royal Assent.
3. Principal Act
In this Act, the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals Act 1986 is called the Principal Act.
4. Codes of Practice
(1) In section 3(1) of the Principal Act, in the
definition of "Code of Practice", for "prepared"
substitute "made".
(2) In section 7(1) of the Principal Act, for "The
Minister may with the approval of the Governor in
Council prepare" substitute "The Governor in
Council, on the recommendation of the Minister,
may make".
(3) In section 7(3) of the Principal Act, for "prepared"
substitute "made".
5. Dogs on moving vehicles
(1) In section 15A(1) of the Principal Act, insert the
following definitions—
' "motor vehicle" has the same meaning as in the
Road Safety Act 1986;
"tray" means a part of a motor vehicle behind the
cabin that is an open compartment and is
principally constructed to carry a load.'.
(2) In section 15A(2) of the Principal Act—
(a) for paragraph (a) substitute—
"(a) a motor vehicle with a tray; or";
s. 2
No. 46/1986.
Reprint No. 3
as at
22 October
1998. Further
amended by
Nos 68/1997
and 76/1998.
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(b) for "on the tray or trailer" substitute "in or
on the tray or trailer (as the case requires)";
(c) for paragraph (c) substitute—
"(c) falling off or out of, or from, or moving
off, the tray or trailer (as the case
requires); or";
(d) in paragraph (d), for "truck" substitute
"motor vehicle".
6. New Part 5 inserted
After section 42 of the Principal Act insert—
"PART 5—TRANSITIONALS
43. Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(Amendment) Act 2000
A Code of Practice prepared by the Minister
and published under section 7 as in force
immediately before the date of
commencement of section 4 of the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(Amendment) Act 2000 is, on that
commencement, deemed to be a Code of
Practice made by the Governor in Council
and published under section 7 as amended by
section 4 of that Act and may be varied or
revoked accordingly.".
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NOTES
† Minister's second reading speech—
Legislative Council: 1 March 2000
Legislative Assembly: 16 March 2000
The long title for the Bill for this Act was "to amend the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals Act 1986 and for other purposes."
Notes
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