Bill
Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-05-14
- second reading — 2020-05-14
- second reading — 2020-08-31
- second reading — 2020-09-02
- second reading — 2020-09-02
- committee — 2020-09-02
- third reading — 2020-09-02
- introduced — 2020-09-03
- second reading — 2020-09-03
- other — 2022-07-25
Divisions
- Migration Amendment (Prohibiting Items in Immigration Detention Facilities) Bill 2020 - Second Reading - Agree with bill's main idea — 2020-09-02, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 42, noes 36
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2020-05-14.
This bill would let the Minister decide what items are banned in immigration detention facilities and give new powers to search those places.
The Department of Home Affairs would gain stronger authority to seize items like illegal drugs, phones not prescribed to the holder, and devices that connect to the internet.
Officers would receive training and must follow binding written directions from the Minister when deciding to seize items such as mobile phones or SIM cards.
- Allows the Minister to determine prohibited things for immigration detention facilities and detainees.
- Creates a new power to search Commonwealth-run detention facilities without a warrant.
- Strengthens existing search and seizure powers for detainees and people entering detention facilities.
- Allows the Minister to issue binding written directions on how officers exercise seizure powers.
Detainees, staff, and visitors in immigration detention facilities, as well as authorised officers and the Department of Home Affairs.
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