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• Biosecurity Amendment (Traveller Declarations and Other Measures) Bill 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Jun 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: enable regulations to prescribe different penalty amounts for infringement notices issued for different kinds of alleged contraventions; clarify that the regulations may prescribe different periods of time to pay an infringement notice depending on the kind of goods or class of goods to which an alleged contravention relates; enable the Director of Biosecurity to determine goods or classes of goods that can attract a higher infringement notice amount and provide that the determination is not disallowable; and enable the regulations to incorporate references to the determination as in force from time to time. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Strengthening Penalties) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Feb 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to increase the civil and criminal penalty amounts for contraventions of certain key requirements relating to the assessment and management of biosecurity risks of goods that are brought or imported into Australian territory, and the carrying out of biosecurity activities in accordance with an approved arrangement. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Strengthening Biosecurity) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Sep 2022 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: enable the minister to determine certain biosecurity measures and requirements for individuals or classes of individuals who are entering Australian territory for the purposes of preventing a disease or pest that is considered to pose an unacceptable biosecurity threat, and establish civil penalty provisions for noncompliance; expand pre-arrival reporting requirements for aircraft and vessels; strengthen penalties for non-compliance with negative pratique requirements; provide for the use and disclosure of certain information, including protected information; increase civil and criminal penalties for contraventions of certain requirements in relation to goods and conveyances; amend the process for making certain determinations specifying prohibited, conditionally non-prohibited and suspended goods or granting permits based on risk assessments; provide legislative authority for expenditure for biosecurity-related programs and activities and provide for additional annual reporting; and amend provisions relating to approved arrangements, administration, auditing and consideration of compensation claims. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Clarifying Conditionally Non-prohibited Goods) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Mar 2021 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Water and the Environment 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to clarify the validity of certain determinations that specify that certain classes of goods are conditionally non-prohibited goods which must not be brought or imported into Australian territory unless they are covered by an import permit or unless alternative conditions specified in the determination are complied with. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Ballast Water and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: implement the Ballast Water Convention and regulate the ballast water and sediment of certain vessels in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to manage the risk of invasive marine pests entering Australian waters; alter and standardise the type of legislative instruments that set out matters and exceptions relating to ballast water discharge in Australian seas; broaden the existing power to destroy exotic vectors of human diseases of concern on vessels and aircraft arriving in Australia; and reinstate a previous power from the superseded

  Quarantine Act 1908

  for human health officials to direct a private property to undertake control activities if an exotic vector incursion is detected. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Advanced Compliance Measures) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: enable the Director of Biosecurity to require each person who intends to enter, or enters, Australian territory on an incoming aircraft or vessel to provide information and produce a passport or other travel document for the purpose of assessing the level of biosecurity risk associated with the person and any goods that the person has with them; enable the director to scan any passport or travel document so produced and collect and retain personal information; create a civil penalty provision for persons who do not comply with the requirement to produce a passport or travel document; introduce a procedural fairness requirement for the relevant director to give notice of a proposed variation to the biosecurity industry participant covered by an approved arrangement and invite the participant to given a written submission within 14 days in relation to the proposed variation; streamline existing notice requirements in relation to a proposed suspension or revocation of an approved arrangement; introduce an alternative sanction of a reprimand which may be given if the relevant director does not consider it appropriate to vary, suspend or revoke an approved arrangement after receiving the biosecurity industry participant’s written submission; increase civil penalties for certain contraventions or failure to comply with certain requirements; make a technical amendment to clarify the Act’s intent; and insert new strict liability offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Nov 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture 

  Summary

  Part of a package of five bills to provide for a regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the

  Quarantine Act 1908

  ), the bill: repeals the

  Quarantine Act 1908

  and

  Quarantine Charges (Collection) Act 2014

  ; makes consequential amendments to 20 Acts to update references to managing biosecurity risk under the proposed

  Biosecurity Act 2014

  , and substitute references to

  Quarantine Act 1908

  with the proposed

  Biosecurity Act 2014

  ; and makes transitional arrangements in relation to the management of biosecurity risks from the

  Quarantine Act 1908

  to the new biosecurity framework under the proposed

  Biosecurity Act 2014

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biological Control Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biological Control Act 1984

  to clarify the definition of an organism to reflect the use of viruses and sub-viral agents as agent and target organisms for biological control activities in the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Better and Fairer Schools (Information Management) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Aug 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Student Identifiers Act 2014

  to extend the system of unique student identifiers for vocational education and training and higher education students to school students. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Better and Fairer Schools (Funding and Reform) Bill 2024

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2024 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Education Act 2013

  to: amend the approach for determining the Commonwealth’s contribution to recurrent funding for government schools by providing for the Commonwealth share to be prescribed by regulation, subject to certain conditions; specify the Northern Territory’s funding share; and provide for certain publication and reporting requirements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum