Bill
Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2017
lapsed, as at 2019-07-01. Immigration and Border Protection portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Immigration and Border Protection
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2017-09-13
- second reading — 2017-09-13
- second reading — 2018-02-06
- second reading — 2018-02-07
- second reading — 2018-02-07
- third reading — 2018-02-07
- introduced — 2018-02-08
- second reading — 2018-02-08
- other — 2019-07-01
Divisions
- Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Don't read the bill a second time — 2018-02-07, House of Representatives: negative, ayes 70, noes 76
- Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2017 - Second Reading - Main idea of the bill — 2018-02-07, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 76, noes 68
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2017-09-13.
This bill would let the Minister ban items like drugs, phones and child pornography from immigration detention centres.
It would create new powers for officers to search facilities and people without a warrant, and to use detector dogs.
The government says the changes are needed because more high-risk detainees, including sex offenders and gang members, are being held.
- Allows the Minister to declare certain things as prohibited in immigration detention facilities.
- Strengthens search and seizure powers, including warrantless searches of Commonwealth-run facilities.
- Permits the use of detector dogs to screen detainees and visitors.
Detainees, visitors, and staff in immigration detention facilities, as well as authorised officers and the Minister.
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