Bill
Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-12-15. Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-10-22
- second reading — 2020-10-26
- second reading — 2020-10-26
- third reading — 2020-10-26
- third reading — 2020-10-28
- third reading — 2020-10-28
- introduced — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-11-09
- second reading — 2020-12-03
- second reading — 2020-12-07
- second reading — 2020-12-07
- committee — 2020-12-07
- committee — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- third reading — 2020-12-08
- passed — 2020-12-08
- royal assent — 2020-12-15
Divisions
- Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Put the question — 2020-10-26, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 54, noes 31
- Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Let a vote happen — 2020-10-26, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 54, noes 31
- The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/debate/?id=2020-10-26.193.6) that the debate be not adjourned. In other words, they voted to continue the debate. — 2020-10-26, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 54, noes 40
- Recycling and Waste Reduction Charges (Customs) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Put the question — 2020-10-26, House of Representatives: affirmative, ayes 54, noes 40
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 of three charges bills that support the Recycling and Waste Reduction Bill 2020.
The package would let the Commonwealth recover the costs of regulating waste material exports by setting charges in future regulations.
The charges themselves, including amounts and who pays, would be set later by the Governor-General in regulations.
- The bill would create a framework for imposing charges on waste material exports.
- It would allow the government to recover costs of regulating those exports.
- The bill would not set the charge amounts or impose any financial impacts itself.
Exporters of regulated waste materials and the Commonwealth government.
Sources
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