Bill
Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Amendment Bill 2016
passed, as at 2017-02-22. Environment and Energy portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment and Energy
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2016-11-24
- second reading — 2017-02-07
- second reading — 2017-02-07
- third reading — 2017-02-07
- introduced — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-08
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- second reading — 2017-02-09
- third reading — 2017-02-09
- passed — 2017-02-09
- royal assent — 2017-02-22
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 2016-11-24.
This bill is part of a two-bill package that would overhaul how Australia regulates hazardous waste shipments.
The package would let the government charge fees covering the full cost of running the permit system for importing, exporting and transiting hazardous waste.
A separate levy bill would recover shared administrative costs that cannot be linked to a single permit applicant.
- The bill would amend the Hazardous Waste (Regulation of Exports and Imports) Act 1989 to allow full cost recovery of the permit scheme.
- The bill would streamline administrative processes, such as publishing permit applications and decisions on the department's website instead of the Commonwealth Gazette.
- The bill would reduce regulatory costs for business.
Businesses that apply for permits to import, export or transit hazardous waste, and the waste generators who ultimately pay the fees.
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