Bill
Quarantine Charges (Imposition—Excise) Amendment Bill 2014
passed, as at 2015-05-26. Agriculture portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-11-27
- second reading — 2014-11-27
- second reading — 2015-02-09
- second reading — 2015-02-09
- third reading — 2015-02-09
- introduced — 2015-02-10
- second reading — 2015-02-10
- second reading — 2015-03-18
- second reading — 2015-05-11
- second reading — 2015-05-12
- committee — 2015-05-12
- committee — 2015-05-13
- third reading — 2015-05-13
- passed — 2015-05-13
- royal assent — 2015-05-26
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 2014-11-27.
This bill is part of a package of three bills that would let the Commonwealth impose charges for indirect biosecurity services funded by future cost-recovery arrangements.
The package would amend three Imposition Acts to create a legal structure supporting cost recovery for activities such as scientific analysis, intelligence and surveillance under the Biosecurity Bill.
The bill itself is enabling and does not set charge amounts, which would be prescribed in delegated legislation, and would have no direct financial impacts on businesses.
- Amends the Quarantine Charges (Imposition – Excise) Act 2014.
- Allows the Commonwealth to impose charges for prescribed matters connected with administering the Biosecurity Bill.
- Enables cost recovery for indirect biosecurity services where the charge is a duty of excise under section 55 of the Constitution.
Users of the biosecurity system and businesses that may be liable for charges set in delegated legislation.
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