Bill
Passports Legislation Amendment (Overseas Travel by Child Sex Offenders) Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-06-26. Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-06-14
- second reading — 2017-06-14
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- third reading — 2017-06-20
- introduced — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- second reading — 2017-06-20
- committee — 2017-06-20
- third reading — 2017-06-20
- passed — 2017-06-20
- royal assent — 2017-06-26
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 2017-06-14.
The bill would stop Australians on child sex offender registers from leaving the country to harm children abroad.
It would force the Minister for Foreign Affairs to refuse a passport when a competent authority asks, and create a new crime for travelling without permission.
The bill would also remove merits review of passport decisions made under these provisions.
- The bill makes passport denial for reportable offenders mandatory when a competent authority requests it.
- The bill creates a new criminal offence for reportable offenders who travel overseas without permission.
- The bill removes merits review for passport decisions by the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
Australians on state or territory child sex offender registers with reporting obligations, known as reportable offenders.
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