Bill
Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2018
lapsed, as at 2019-04-11. Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-02-07
- second reading — 2018-02-07
- other — 2019-04-11
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 2018-02-07.
This bill would allow the Minister to share Australian travel document data through automated identity-matching services agreed between the Commonwealth, states and territories.
It would amend the Australian Passports Act 2005 to add a new purpose for disclosing information and let the Minister authorise computer programs to make certain decisions.
The bill would also allow computer-made decisions to be substituted if incorrect, without affecting the reviewability of decisions about travel documents.
- Adds a new purpose for disclosing information under the Passports Act to participate in identity-matching services.
- Allows the Minister to arrange for computer programs to make decisions under the Passports Act.
- Provides that computer-made decisions may be substituted if incorrect.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth, state and territory agencies, and individuals whose identity information is used in the services.
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