Bill
Quarantine Charges (Imposition—Customs) 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 three-bill package that would let the Commonwealth recover costs for indirect biosecurity services under the Biosecurity Bill.
It amends the Quarantine Charges (Imposition-Customs) Act 2014 to allow charges for such services when they are considered customs duties under section 55 of the Constitution.
The bill is enabling and mechanistic, mirroring the General Amendment Bill, and does not set charge amounts or impose financial impacts on businesses.
- Amends the Quarantine Charges (Imposition-Customs) Act 2014.
- Enables the imposition of charges for indirect biosecurity services where the charge is a customs duty.
- Mirrors the provisions of the Quarantine Charges (Imposition-General) Amendment Bill 2014.
Users of the biosecurity system and businesses that may be subject to charges, though the bill itself imposes no financial impacts.
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