Bill
Transport Security Amendment (Serious or Organised Crime) Bill 2016
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17. Infrastructure and Regional Development portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure and Regional Development
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-02-11
- second reading — 2016-02-11
- second reading — 2016-03-16
- second reading — 2016-03-16
- third reading — 2016-03-16
- introduced — 2016-03-16
- second reading — 2016-03-16
- other — 2016-04-17
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 2016-02-11.
This bill would reduce criminal influence at airports and seaports by strengthening security card schemes.
It would create a new purpose in the aviation and maritime security Acts to prevent the use of transport or offshore facilities for serious or organised crime.
New eligibility criteria for security cards would target offences such as those under anti-criminal organisation laws, foreign incursion and recruitment offences, and illegal importation of goods.
- Creates an additional purpose in the Aviation Transport Security Act 2004 and the Maritime Transport and Offshore Facilities Security Act 2003 to prevent serious or organised crime.
- Establishes a regulatory framework for harmonised eligibility criteria for aviation and maritime security identification cards.
- Clarifies and aligns the legislative basis for security checking of card applicants and holders.
- Allows regulations to prescribe penalties for new serious or organised crime offences consistent with existing penalty provisions.
- Inserts a severability provision to guide a court on Parliament's intention.
- Amends the Maritime Act to clarify the legislative basis for background checks of persons accessing secure maritime zones.
All persons required by law to hold an aviation or maritime security identification card, including officials such as airport security guards, would be affected.
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