Bill
Civil Nuclear Transfers to India Bill 2016
passed, as at 2016-12-07. Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-11-09
- second reading — 2016-11-09
- second reading — 2016-11-23
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- third reading — 2016-11-24
- introduced — 2016-11-28
- second reading — 2016-11-28
- second reading — 2016-12-01
- second reading — 2016-12-01
- third reading — 2016-12-01
- passed — 2016-12-01
- royal assent — 2016-12-07
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 2016-11-09.
The bill would protect approvals for civil nuclear exports to India from being challenged under Australia's international non-proliferation commitments.
It would declare that such approvals are not inconsistent with those commitments when certain conditions are satisfied.
The bill does not specify which international agreements are covered or what the conditions are.
- Makes it clear that civil nuclear transfer decisions are not a breach of nuclear safeguards obligations.
- Protects uranium supply contracts from being blocked by domestic legal challenges.
- Extends the same protection to future trade in other nuclear materials for civil purposes.
Uranium mining companies and other Australian exporters of nuclear material to India.
Sources
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