Bill
Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2021-03-26. Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-12-03
- second reading — 2020-12-03
- second reading — 2021-03-18
- second reading — 2021-03-18
- third reading — 2021-03-18
- introduced — 2021-03-18
- second reading — 2021-03-18
- third reading — 2021-03-18
- passed — 2021-03-18
- royal assent — 2021-03-26
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 2020-12-03.
This bill creates a nationwide system for overseeing how industrial chemicals are used, handled, and thrown away, aiming to cut environmental harm and reduce human exposure.
The environment minister would set rules for sorting chemicals by risk, make decisions on which controls apply, and keep a public list of those decisions, with advice from a new expert panel.
The list itself would not directly force anyone to follow the controls; instead, other laws at national, state, or territory level would have to adopt it to make the rules enforceable.
- Establishes a national framework for managing industrial chemicals' lifecycle.
- Allows the minister to create decision-making principles for categorizing chemicals by environmental risk.
- Lets the minister make scheduling decisions that can restrict or ban chemical use or disposal.
- Creates a register to record all scheduling decisions.
- Sets up an advisory body to counsel the minister on scheduling and the register.
- Adds mechanisms for sharing and protecting information, and allows delegation of the minister's powers.
Businesses that manufacture, import, use, or dispose of industrial chemicals, as well as the general public and state and territory governments.
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