Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009

[yields]

Public Consultation Notice

Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

Interested organisations, groups and businesses are invited to make a submission on the Proposed Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009 in South Australia.

 

A discussion paper, produced specifically to highlight issues that need to be considered when making a submission, looks at the following:

 

* the licensing requirements

* the associated definitions

* the requirement to under go a fit and proper person check

* the requirement to electronically transfer copies of transactions to the police

* associated costs to business

* customers are to produce identification

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the discussion paper and supporting material or telephone: 08- 8204 9652

 

The discussion paper is not the final version of what will occur in the Bill however outlines the concepts approved for drafting.

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the Bill

 

Comments are to be sent to:

Proposed Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009

C/o South Australia Police

GPO Box 1539

ADELAIDE SA 5001

 

Closing date for submissions: Friday, 5 June 2009

 

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the discussion paper and supporting material-->

http://www.sapolice.sa.gov.au/public...d.jsp?id=48760

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the Bill-->

http://www.sapolice.sa.gov.au/public...d.jsp?id=48809

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If it gets passed, which it will IMO then the rest of the states will soon follow.

[bufo marinus]

Public Consultation Notice

Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

 

Interested organisations, groups and businesses are invited to make a submission on the Proposed Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009 in South Australia.

 

A discussion paper, produced specifically to highlight issues that need to be considered when making a submission, looks at the following:

 

* the licensing requirements

* the associated definitions

* the requirement to under go a fit and proper person check

* the requirement to electronically transfer copies of transactions to the police

* associated costs to business

* customers are to produce identification

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the discussion paper and supporting material or telephone: 08- 8204 9652

 

The discussion paper is not the final version of what will occur in the Bill however outlines the concepts approved for drafting.

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the Bill

 

Comments are to be sent to:

Proposed Hydroponics Industry Control Bill 2009

C/o South Australia Police

GPO Box 1539

ADELAIDE SA 5001

 

Closing date for submissions: Friday, 5 June 2009

 

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the discussion paper and supporting material-->

http://www.sapolice.sa.gov.au/public...d.jsp?id=48760

 

Click here to obtain a copy of the Bill-->

http://www.sapolice.sa.gov.au/public...d.jsp?id=48809

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If it gets passed, which it will IMO then the rest of the states will soon follow.

 

There are ways around all of this, just stock up on lamps and a couple spare ballasts. Everything else can be bought from a hardware and nursery.

Industry uses HPS and Metal Halide lamps. Ballasts are available. Standard lamps work ok.

This won't do shit to stop growing. Everyone will move from Hydro to Soil. Only need flouros to keep mother plants alive and flower outdoors.

[yields]

There are ways around all of this, just stock up on lamps and a couple spare ballasts. Everything else can be bought from a hardware and nursery.

Industry uses HPS and Metal Halide lamps. Ballasts are available. Standard lamps work ok.

This won't do shit to stop growing. Everyone will move from Hydro to Soil. Only need flouros to keep mother plants alive and flower outdoors.

 

Yeah good point bufo, I dont see how they can ban everything that may or may not be used for hydro, as u said u could get everything from the hardware or nursary, use soil or even scoria or rockwool insulation which would work fine if rinsed, commercial HID lighting or a heap of T5's or those LED UFO's. Even the nutes if re-labled as plant food rather than hydropic nutes, would be a way around that problem.

 

They are fighting a battle they cant win!

[Reverend]

If you know your hydro shop well I think the cash industry will thrive.

[yields]

If you know your hydro shop well I think the cash industry will thrive.

 

Hahahah, true gills.

 

It would be the only way the retail hydro shops would be able to remain viable, 99.9% of them would close down otherwise.

[need4weed3]

they cant turn mother nature off

can they????????

[duck]

Tiz Big Brother all over again

[yields]

they cant turn mother nature off

can they????????

Much harder to detect indoors, hence why they pass all these bullshit laws.

[yields]

Tiz Big Brother all over again

While on the subject check out this one....

 

http://www.news.com.au/business/money/stor...5017313,00.html

 

 

AN electricity company plans to install a new electronic control box in homes, allowing it to switch off individual appliances, such as airconditioners and plasma TVs, to ration power use.

 

ETSA Utilities customers who agree to allow rationing could be in line for better deals on their electricity bills, AdelaideNow reports.

 

ETSA chief executive Lew Owens says the new device, now being trialled, could prevent the kind of load-shedding blackouts across entire suburbs that Adelaide experienced in January, by reducing demand across the city.

 

ETSA wants to introduce the system some time after 2010 and put eventually roll it out into all homes in Adelaide.

 

The new device would go in the meter box and remotely read meters, turn power on and off, report outages – and, if the customer agreed, ration power to an individual home.

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It is controlled by an FM radio signal and on a house-by-house basis.

 

It follows the successful trial by ETSA of a less sophisticated "peak breaker" box attached to airconditioners in Mawson Lakes and Glenelg, which was used to turn off refrigerated airconditioner compressors in periods of peak demand during heatwaves.

 

"We can turn off the compressors and leave the fan circulating the air," Mr Owens said.

 

"We turn it off 15 minutes in every hour by an FM radio signal and the customer doesn't know it's happened."

 

The trials found that peak electricity demand during heatwaves could be reduced dramatically by the control boxes, with Mawson Lakes homes' power consumption cut by about a third, and Glenelg's by about 20 per cent.

 

Mr Owens emphasised that while ETSA planned to put the new boxes in all homes, customers would choose whether to allow it to be used to ration power.

 

However, he added that people who did not take this option might find they would lose all power when power demand was running at peak levels.

 

It is likely ETSA will offer different tariffs to attract people to use the system, potentially cutting the charges it levies for distribution in everyone's bill.

 

One option would be for customers to pay a lower distribution charge in a deal where they might agree to limit their use of power to a certain amount.

 

If they exceeded their limit at any time, they could be given a five-minute warning by ETSA – and then power would be cut to certain appliances listed in their agreement.

 

This could mean a plasma TV and airconditioner might be turned off remotely, while computers would be allowed to stay connected.

 

ETSA says the box is sophisticated enough to control specific equipment in the home.

Edited June 5, 2009 by yields

[nitram]

'Contra ban' - 'prohabtion' - 'records' - "control" - When will they learn.

 

On the nose with your opinions gills & buff

Nitty.