Bill
Protection of the Sea (Prevention of Pollution from Ships) Amendment (Air Pollution) Bill 2019
passed, as at 2019-12-12. Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2019-09-18
- second reading — 2019-09-18
- second reading — 2019-10-16
- second reading — 2019-10-16
- third reading — 2019-10-16
- introduced — 2019-10-17
- second reading — 2019-10-17
- second reading — 2019-11-14
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- second reading — 2019-12-05
- third reading — 2019-12-05
- passed — 2019-12-05
- royal assent — 2019-12-12
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2019-09-18.
This bill updates Australian law to meet international rules on ship air pollution.
It would ban ships from carrying fuel with more than 0.50 per cent sulphur content for combustion from 1 March 2020, and allow alternative compliance methods like exhaust scrubbers.
The bill also exempts naval and foreign government vessels and clarifies duties of fuel suppliers.
- Implements a global sulphur cap of 0.50 per cent mass/mass on fuel oil used in ships from 1 January 2020.
- Prohibits carrying high sulphur fuel oil for combustion on ships from 1 March 2020.
- Allows equivalent compliance methods such as exhaust gas cleaning systems.
- Exempts naval and foreign government vessels from the Act.
- Clarifies obligations of fuel oil suppliers and local suppliers.
- Supports reporting obligations when compliant fuel oil is unavailable.
Ships, shipping companies, fuel oil suppliers, and the Australian government are affected.
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