Bill
Transport Security Legislation Amendment Bill 2016
passed, as at 2017-03-28. Infrastructure and Regional Development portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure and Regional Development
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2016-12-01
- second reading — 2016-12-01
- second reading — 2017-02-13
- second reading — 2017-02-13
- third reading — 2017-02-13
- introduced — 2017-02-13
- second reading — 2017-02-13
- second reading — 2017-02-14
- second reading — 2017-03-20
- second reading — 2017-03-20
- committee — 2017-03-20
- third reading — 2017-03-20
- passed — 2017-03-20
- royal assent — 2017-03-28
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 2016-12-01.
The bill would update aviation and maritime security laws to let screening happen inside secure zones at airports, not just at entry points.
It would give the department head power to name screening locations and to hand his duties to junior public servants, and let guards order people or their belongings out of a zone if they refuse screening or a weapon is found.
The bill also creates authority for regulations to set how this inside-zone screening is carried out.
- The bill extends the purpose of screening to cover staying inside a secure airport zone.
- The bill lets the department head specify where screening occurs via a notice.
- The bill creates a rule-making power for how in-zone screening should be done.
- The bill allows a screening officer to eject a person or remove their vehicle or goods from a secure zone after a screening refusal or weapon detection.
- The bill lets the department head delegate his powers under both the aviation and maritime acts to lower-level public servants.
People, vehicles, and goods at security-controlled airports, along with the Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development and its staff.
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