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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017-2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Competition and Consumer Amendment
(Free Range Eggs) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Ms Sharkie)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Competition and
Consumer Act 2010, and for related purposes
No. , 2018
Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free Range Eggs) Bill 2018
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Competition and Consumer Act 2010
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No. , 2018
Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free Range Eggs) Bill 2018
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Competition and
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Consumer Act 2010, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free
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Range Eggs) Act 2018.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Competition and Consumer Amendment (Free Range Eggs) Bill 2018
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after the end of the period of 12
months beginning on the day this Act
receives the Royal Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Competition and Consumer Act 2010
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1 At the end of section 134 of Schedule 2
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Add:
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(3) An information standard under subsection (1) for eggs has no
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effect to the extent that:
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(a) the standard permits eggs that do not satisfy all of the
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following conditions to be represented (whether on labelling
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or otherwise) as free range eggs:
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(i) the eggs are laid by hens that are able to move about
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freely on an open range during daylight hours on most
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days;
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(ii) a majority of those hens do in fact move about freely on
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the open range during daylight hours on most days;
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(iii) the hens are subject to a stocking density of no more
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than 1,500 hens per hectare; or
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(b) the standard permits information about the stocking density
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of the hens that laid free range eggs to be displayed (whether
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on labelling or otherwise) otherwise than as hens per hectare;
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or
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(c) the standard permits eggs that are cage-free eggs but that do
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not satisfy all of the conditions in paragraph (a) to be
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represented (whether on labelling or otherwise) as anything
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other than access to range eggs.
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