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Bill: Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: Judicial Union Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: March 2533
Description[?]:
| An act to devolve to local governments responsibility for regulating wild animal ownership. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of wild animals as pets.
Old value:: The government maintains a list of dangerous wild animals which may not be kept as pets; other wild animals may be kept as pets.
Current: The ownership of wild animals as pets is banned.
Proposed: This matter is left up to the local governments.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 12:40:38, February 14, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | We currently require people to register domestic animals with their local governments. And that is right, for safety reasons. It stands to reason that wild animals would be regulated the same way. Local governments are best able to craft law to deal with the specific needs of their territory. |
| Date | 13:31:55, February 14, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | Not even bothering |
| Date | 02:53:49, February 15, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | oppose unless we want to establish it is already tribal custom in some regions to keep "dangerous" wild animals |
| Date | 02:55:24, February 15, 2008 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | This is not about custom, it is about consistency. Domestic animals are regulated by local governments, it stands to reason that other animals would be too. |
| Date | 12:12:10, February 16, 2008 CET | From | Greenish Liberal Democratic Socialists | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | Current law is fine, we don't want to have the locals to determine this. For goodness sake, they could allow all wild animals to be kept as pets without any restrictions or precautions whatsoever for exmple. I wouldn't be too happy if my neighboor keeps a lion in a poorly constructed hen house in his backyard, if my children are playing outside. |
| Date | 00:51:36, February 17, 2008 CET | From | JDW Tukarali Greens Party | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | JUP - domestic animals are regulated (required to be registered) I proposed a bill to stop this and I believe every single party voted against it, including yours |
| Date | 01:06:45, February 17, 2008 CET | From | Rightist Party | To | Debating the Animals (Wild Animal Ownership) Devolution Act |
| Message | defeated |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 172 | |||||
| no |
Total Seats: 328 | |||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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