Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020

Type: Government
Portfolio: Home Affairs
Originating house: House of Representatives
Status: Not Proceeding
Parliament no: 46

Summary

Amends the Migration Act 1958 to: enable the minister to determine, by legislative instrument, prohibited things (including controlled drugs, prescription drugs not taken by the person to whom they are prescribed, mobile phones, SIM cards and internet-capable devices) in relation to immigration detention facilities and detainees; enable authorised officers and assistants to search Commonwealth immigration detention facilities without a warrant; strengthen the search and seizure and screening powers of authorised officers; and enable the minister to issue binding written directions to authorised officers in relation to the exercise of their seizure powers.

Progress

House of Representatives
Introduced and read a first time	14 May 2020
Second reading moved	14 May 2020
Second reading debate	31 Aug 2020
Second reading debate	02 Sep 2020
Second reading agreed to	02 Sep 2020
Consideration in detail debate	02 Sep 2020
Third reading agreed to	02 Sep 2020

Senate
Introduced and read a first time	03 Sep 2020
Second reading moved	03 Sep 2020
Lapsed at end of Parliament	25 Jul 2022

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Notes

Referred to Committee (14/05/2020): Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee; Committee report (05/08/2020)
Considered by scrutiny committee (10/06/2020): Senate Standing Committee for the Scrutiny of Bills; Scrutiny Digest 7 of 2020
Considered by scrutiny committee (17/06/2020): Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights; Report 9 of 2020

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