Senate debates

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Bills

Wheat Export Marketing Amendment Bill 2012; In Committee

4:14 pm

Photo of Scott LudlamScott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The question is that Senator Xenophon's amendment (7), on sheet 7328, be agreed to.

Question negatived.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: The time allotted for the remaining stages of the bill has expired. The question now is that amendment (4) on sheet 7294 revised, circulated by the Australian Greens, which is identical to Senator Xenophon's amendment (6), on sheet 7328, be agreed to:

Schedule 1, item 29, page 13 (line 19), omit "voluntary".

Question agreed to.

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: The question now is that amendments (5) and (8) on sheet 7328, circulated by Senator Xenophon, be agreed to:

(5) Schedule 1, item 29, page 13 (after line 14), after paragraph 12(2) (b), insert:

(ba) requires major providers of receival, storage and handling services to publish timely, aggregated grain stocks information describing tonnes of stacked grades on a port zone basis; and

(bb) requires wheat export cargoes to comply with a nominated Australian wheat varietal classification grade; and

(8) Schedule 2, item 15, page 23 (line 6), omit paragraph 60(b), substitute:

(b) the wheat industry advisory body established under section 4 of the Wheat Export Marketing Amendment Act 2012 has approved the funding.

Question negatived.

Bill, as amended, agreed to.

Bill reported with amendments; report adopted.

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