Bill
Customs Amendment (Australian Trusted Trader Programme) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-06-25. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-06-03
- second reading — 2015-06-03
- second reading — 2015-06-16
- second reading — 2015-06-16
- third reading — 2015-06-16
- introduced — 2015-06-17
- second reading — 2015-06-17
- second reading — 2015-06-18
- second reading — 2015-06-18
- third reading — 2015-06-18
- passed — 2015-06-18
- royal assent — 2015-06-25
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 2015-06-03.
This bill would create the Australian Trusted Trader Programme under the Customs Act 1901.
The Comptroller-General of Customs could enter into agreements with businesses that meet qualification criteria set out in rules, and provide them with administrative or legislative benefits.
Decisions to refuse, vary, suspend or terminate an agreement could be reviewed by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal.
- Entities can apply to join the programme.
- The Comptroller-General of Customs may grant benefits to qualifying businesses.
- Agreements can be varied, suspended or terminated if conditions are not met.
- The Comptroller-General of Customs can maintain a public register of agreements.
Entities that want to participate in the Australian Trusted Trader Programme.
Sources
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