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Export Legislation Amendment Bill 2014
Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Amendment Bill 2014
Export Inspection (Service Charge) Amendment Bill 2014
Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Amendment Bill 2014

Portfolio: Agriculture
Introduced: House of Representatives, 27 March 2014

1.62          These four bills form a package of bills relating to export services.

1.63        The Export Legislation Amendment Bill 2014 (the bill) seeks to align the definition of 'prescribed good' in the Export Inspection Meat Charges and Collection Act 1985 and the Export Control Act 1982. This is intended to ensure consistent cost recovery for services provided by the Department of Agriculture to exporters. The bill also seeks to amend the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997 to enable the Department of Agriculture to recover costs for the provision of services, such as issuing quota certificates for export quota administered by other countries.

1.64        The remaining bills make consequential amendments to the Export Inspection (Quantity Charge) Act 1985, the Export Inspection (Service Charge) Act 1985 and the Export Inspection (Establishment Registration Charges) Act 1985 as a result of the definitional changes made to the Export Inspection and Meat Charges Collection Act 1985 by the Export Legislation Amendment Bill 2014.

1.65        The bills are accompanied by individual statements of compatibility which each state that the bill in question 'does not engage any of the applicable rights or freedoms as the amendments are minor and technical in nature.'[1]

1.66                  The committee considers that the bills do not appear to give rise to human rights concerns.

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