Bill
Aviation Legislation Amendment (Liability and Insurance) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-12-17. Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-05-13
- second reading — 2020-12-09
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- third reading — 2020-12-10
- introduced — 2020-12-10
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- second reading — 2020-12-10
- third reading — 2020-12-10
- passed — 2020-12-10
- royal assent — 2020-12-17
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 2020-05-13.
The bill would update Australia's civil aviation liability and insurance framework.
It would increase liability caps and minimum insurance amounts for passenger death or injury, and expand regulation-making powers to allow future adjustments by regulation.
The liability limit for domestic passenger death or injury would be raised from $725,000 to $925,000, and the minimum insurance amount for domestic travel would increase from $725,000 to $925,000.
- Increase liability limits for passenger death or injury, baggage loss, and international flights to reflect amounts set in 2019 regulations.
- Increase the minimum amount of insurance carriers must purchase for domestic and international travel.
- Expand regulation-making powers to allow the government to increase liability caps and insurance amounts by regulation, including possible automatic indexation.
- Allow the Secretary to make determinations about acceptable insurance exclusions, enabling mandatory war risk insurance.
- Clarify that servants and agents of air carriers can rely on the same liability conditions and limits as carriers.
- Update the Air Accidents (Commonwealth Government Liability) Act 1963 to incorporate future liability cap increases whether made by the principal Act or regulation.
Civil aviation carriers, passengers, servants and agents of air carriers, and the Commonwealth government.
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