Bill
Civil Aviation (Unmanned Aircraft Levy) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-12-17. Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- introduced — 2020-12-08
- second reading — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- passed — 2020-12-08
- 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 2020-08-27.
This bill is part of a package that would introduce a levy on certain drone and model aircraft operators to recover the cost of regulating them.
The bill would impose the levy for remotely piloted aircraft, with the amount set in regulations and capped at $300.
Collection would start on 30 September 2020, but the levy would not apply to model aircraft until 2022.
- The bill would establish the legal mechanism to impose a levy for cost recovery of regulatory services for remotely piloted aircraft operators.
- It would define key terms such as 'RPA' and 'model aircraft' as in the Civil Aviation Safety Regulations.
- It would cap the levy at $300 and allow it to be set to nil.
Commercial and professional users of remotely piloted aircraft and, from 2022, relevant model aircraft operators.
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