Bill
Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill 2019
lapsed, as at 2022-04-11. Foreign Affairs and Trade portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Foreign Affairs and Trade
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-07-31
- second reading — 2019-07-31
- other — 2022-04-11
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 2019-07-31.
This bill would allow the Minister to share Australian travel document data for 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 use computer programs to make decisions.
The services include the Face Verification Service and the Face Identification Service, and the bill would also allow automation of low-risk decisions like issuing passports when data exactly matches previous applications.
- Adds a new purpose for disclosing information to participate in identity-matching services specified in a Minister's determination.
- 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, without limiting reviewability of travel document decisions.
The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Commonwealth, state and territory agencies, and potentially the private sector.
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