Bill
Industrial Chemicals Legislation Amendment 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 makes changes to support a new framework for managing industrial chemicals after they are used and disposed of.
The Minister would set controls on industrial chemicals through scheduling decisions that apply across their lifecycle.
The bill also fixes an error in a delegations power in the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019.
- Amends the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019 to support the collection of a scheduling charge alongside the existing registration charge.
- Prevents the scheduling charge from being credited to the Industrial Chemicals Special Account.
- Corrects an error in a delegations power in the Industrial Chemicals Act 2019.
Registered introducers of industrial chemicals would be affected.
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