Bill
Product Emissions Standards (Excise) Charges Bill 2017
passed, as at 2017-09-14. Environment and Energy portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment and Energy
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-08-10
- second reading — 2017-08-10
- second reading — 2017-09-05
- other — 2017-09-05
- second reading — 2017-09-06
- second reading — 2017-09-06
- other — 2017-09-06
- third reading — 2017-09-06
- introduced — 2017-09-07
- second reading — 2017-09-07
- second reading — 2017-09-11
- second reading — 2017-09-11
- committee — 2017-09-11
- third reading — 2017-09-11
- passed — 2017-09-11
- royal assent — 2017-09-14
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 2017-08-10.
This bill is part of a package that creates a national framework to reduce air pollution from certain products.
The package allows the minister to designate emissions-controlled products and set rules for their certification, and the excise charges bill would impose a fee on importing or making those products to recover costs.
The first products expected to be covered are new non-road spark ignition engines and equipment, which at peak times contribute up to 10 per cent of urban air pollutants.
- Establishes a national framework for emissions standards on certain products.
- Allows the minister to prescribe products as emissions-controlled and make rules for them.
- Creates offences and civil penalties for importing or supplying uncertified emissions-controlled products.
- Enables cost recovery through a charge on import or domestic manufacture of emissions-controlled products.
- Requires regular reviews of the framework's operation.
Importers and domestic manufacturers of emissions-controlled products, particularly non-road spark ignition engines and equipment.
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