Bill
Criminal Code Amendment (Food Contamination) Bill 2018
passed, as at 2018-09-21. Attorney-General portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Attorney-General
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2018-09-20
- second reading — 2018-09-20
- second reading — 2018-09-20
- second reading — 2018-09-20
- third reading — 2018-09-20
- introduced — 2018-09-20
- second reading — 2018-09-20
- second reading — 2018-09-20
- second reading — 2018-09-20
- third reading — 2018-09-20
- passed — 2018-09-20
- royal assent — 2018-09-21
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 2018-09-20.
The bill would strengthen Australia's food contamination offences after recent strawberry contamination incidents.
It would increase the maximum penalty for existing intention-based offences in the Criminal Code and create new recklessness-based offences punishable by 10 years' imprisonment.
The bill would also change the definition of 'public' in the Criminal Code to include food meant for public consumption and food-related services.
- Increase the maximum penalty for existing food contamination offences under sections 380.1 to 380.5 of the Criminal Code.
- Create new offences for recklessly causing public alarm, economic loss, or harm to public health, with a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment.
- Amend the definition of 'public' in the Criminal Code to cover food for public consumption and related services.
Individuals who contaminate food with the intention of causing public alarm, economic loss, or harm, and those who are reckless about causing such effects.
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