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- Date
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27 Nov 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture
- Summary
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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
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- Date
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27 Nov 2014
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture
- Summary
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Part of a package of five bills to provide for a regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the Quarantine Act 1908) to: manage biosecurity risks, the risk of contagion of a listed human disease, the risk of listed human diseases entering Australian territory, risks related to ballast water, biosecurity emergencies and human biosecurity emergencies; and give effect to Australia’s international rights and obligations, including the International Health Regulations 2005, the World Trade Organization Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and the Convention on Biological Diversity 1992.
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- Date
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28 Mar 2018
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture and Water Resources
- Summary
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Amends the
Biosecurity Act 2015
to: introduce new information-gathering arrangements in relation to monitoring, controlling and responding to biosecurity risks within Australia; clarify the definitions of ‘commercial-in-confidence information’ and ‘human remains’; clarify that protected information may be disclosed by Australia’s National Focal Point to other member states of the World Health Organization under the International Health Regulations (2005); and make technical amendments. Also repeals the Quarantine (Validation of Fees) Act 1985
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- Date
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15 Feb 2017
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture and Water Resources
- Summary
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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.
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- Date
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25 Feb 2016
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture and Water Resources
- Summary
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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).
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- Date
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21 Jun 2023
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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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.
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- Date
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28 Sep 2022
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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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.
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- Date
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28 Nov 2012
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
- Summary
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Introduced with the Inspector-General of Biosecurity Bill 2012 [2013], the bill responds to the Nairn and Beale reviews by providing for a modern regulatory framework (which reflects and replaces the
Quarantine Act 1908
) to: manage biosecurity risks, the risk of contagion of a listed human disease, the risk of listed human diseases entering Australian territory, risks related to ballast water, biosecurity emergencies and human biosecurity emergencies; and give effect to Australia’s international rights and obligations, including the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations and Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures, and the Convention on Biological Diversity.
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- Date
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01 Sep 2021
- Chamber
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House of Representatives
- Status
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Not Proceeding
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Water and the Environment
- Summary
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Amends the
Biosecurity Act 2015
to: expand pre-arrival reporting requirements for aircraft and vessels; strengthen penalties for non-compliance with negative pratique requirements; create a mechanism to make a human biosecurity group direction; increase civil and criminal penalties for contraventions of certain requirements in relation to goods; amend the process for making certain determinations specifying prohibited, conditionally non-prohibited and suspended goods or granting permits based on risk assessments; and provide legislative authority for expenditure for biosecurity-related programs and activities, such as surveillance programs for pests and diseases.
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- Date
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18 Mar 2021
- Chamber
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Senate
- Status
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Act
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Portfolio
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Agriculture, Water and the Environment
- Summary
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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.
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