Bill
Export Control Amendment (Quotas) Bill 2015
passed, as at 2015-12-11. Agriculture and Water Resources portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture and Water Resources
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2015-11-12
- second reading — 2015-11-12
- second reading — 2015-11-26
- second reading — 2015-11-30
- second reading — 2015-11-30
- third reading — 2015-11-30
- introduced — 2015-12-01
- second reading — 2015-12-01
- second reading — 2015-12-03
- second reading — 2015-12-03
- third reading — 2015-12-03
- passed — 2015-12-03
- royal assent — 2015-12-11
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 2015-11-12.
The bill would bring together the rules for export tariff rate quotas into a single law covering all goods.
The Secretary would gain the power to make orders and directions for quota systems, with directions able to override orders.
The bill would start on Royal Assent, but the repeal of existing quota laws would not take effect until 1 January 2017.
- Consolidates four Acts governing tariff rate export quotas into one Act.
- Enables the Secretary to make orders establishing and administering quota systems for goods.
- Allows the Secretary to give directions that can override an order.
- Introduces new powers for registers and computer systems to make decisions under the quota system.
- Repeals existing quota laws under the Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990, the Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997 and the Dairy Produce Act 1986 on 1 January 2017.
Exporters of agricultural products who participate in tariff rate quota schemes.
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