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South Australia
Surveillance Devices (Animal Welfare) Amendment
Bill 2016
A BILL FOR
An Act to amend the
Surveillance
Devices Act 2016
.
Contents
Part 2—Amendment of Surveillance
Devices Act 2016
4Amendment of section 6—Listening devices
and optical surveillance devices—public interest exception
5Amendment of section 10—Communication or
publication of information or material—public interest
The Parliament of South Australia enacts as
follows:
This Act may be cited as the Surveillance Devices (Animal Welfare)
Amendment Act 2016.
This Act will come into operation immediately after Part 2
Division 2 of the
Surveillance
Devices Act 2016
comes into operation.
In this Act, a provision under a heading referring to the amendment of a
specified Act amends the Act so specified.
Part 2—Amendment
of Surveillance Devices
Act 2016
4—Amendment
of section 6—Listening devices and optical surveillance
devices—public interest exception
Section 6—after subsection (2) insert:
(3) For the purposes of this section, the use of a listening device or an
optical surveillance device to obtain information or material relating to issues
of animal welfare will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be taken to be
in the public interest.
5—Amendment
of section 10—Communication or publication of information or
material—public interest
(1) Section 10(2)—after paragraph (b) insert:
or
(c) the information or material relates to issues of animal
welfare.
(2) Section 10—after subsection (2) insert:
(3) For the purposes of this section, the use of a listening device or an
optical surveillance device to obtain information or material relating to issues
of animal welfare will, in the absence of proof to the contrary, be taken to be
in the public interest.