❓ Hon Frank Hough asks when the government will implement an autonomous skeleton weed authority, as requested by farmers. Hon Kim Chance responds that current legislation prevents this but new legislation is being drafted for the autumn 2003 session to give farmers more control over eradication funds.
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When will the Government implement an autonomous skeleton weed authority, as recommended by Western Australian farmers, so that skeleton weed control is taken away from the Agriculture Protection Board? Hon KIM CHANCE
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I thank the member for some notice of this question. Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
Hon KIM CHANCE replied : I thank the member for some notice of this question. Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
I thank the member for some notice of this question. Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
Under existing legislation, responsibility for skeleton weed eradication rests with the Agriculture Protection Board. Regulation of declared plants under the Agriculture and Related Resources Protection Act 1976, and funding of eradication programs under the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974, are administered by the Agriculture Protection Board. A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
A proposal for the replacement of the Plant Pests and Diseases (Eradication Funds) Act 1974 was jointly developed by Western Australian farmers, the Pastoralists and Graziers Association, the Department of Agriculture, and the Agriculture Protection Board and has been approved for legislative drafting and parliamentary introduction in the autumn 2003 session. That legislation will provide a high degree of industry autonomy in management of funding and delivery of such eradication programs. If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
If that sounds a bit confusing, basically, the law as it is currently constructed prevents the Government from doing precisely what Western Australian farmers want it to do, and we are working with them and others to try to reframe the law so that it can give farmers a higher degree of legal control over the way the funds are administered. I must point out that these funds are primarily the farmer’s own funds, in that they are derived from an industry levy. Point of Order Hon MURRAY CRIDDLE: It is rather a point of clarification. Nine days ago now, I asked some questions on notice. I would now like the President to clarify for me the process by which those answers are given. The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
The PRESIDENT: The point of clarification is that, under standing orders, some indication needs to be given, if nine sitting days have elapsed, about when an answer might be anticipated. Is that what the member is referring to? If the member will bring to my attention the particular question, I will pursue it.
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