Bill
Customs Amendment Bill 2014
passed, as at 2015-02-25. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2014-07-17
- second reading — 2014-11-26
- second reading — 2014-11-26
- third reading — 2014-11-26
- introduced — 2014-11-27
- second reading — 2014-11-27
- second reading — 2015-02-11
- second reading — 2015-02-11
- third reading — 2015-02-11
- passed — 2015-02-11
- royal assent — 2015-02-25
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2014-07-17.
The bill would make several technical updates to the Customs Act 1901.
It would allow the customs agency to authorise future job roles, extend controls to arrival points, and improve reporting and application processes.
Customs powers would be expanded to cover baggage and cargo of domestic passengers on international flights and voyages.
- The bill would let authorisations cover positions created after the authorisation is given.
- It would extend customs controls to places where ships and aircraft arrive under section 58 of the Act.
- It would provide more flexibility for reporting ship and aircraft arrivals and reporting stores and prohibited goods.
- It would improve application processes for several permissions and support online applications.
- It would extend customs examination powers to domestic passenger baggage and domestic cargo on international flights or voyages.
- It would improve how the infringement notice scheme interacts with the claims process for prohibited imports.
The Australian Customs and Border Protection Service and people or entities involved in international flights and voyages.
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