Bill
Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) Charge (Customs) 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 is part of a package that would establish a national framework to manage industrial chemicals' ongoing use and disposal, reducing environmental impacts and human exposure.
The package would allow the Minister to make scheduling decisions imposing controls on an industrial chemical across its lifecycle, strengthening environmental risk management responses.
This bill would create a cost recovery model for administering the framework, applying charges that are neither customs nor excise duties, with amounts prescribed by regulations.
- Sets up cost recovery mechanisms for Commonwealth services under the Industrial Chemicals Environmental Management (Register) framework.
- Allows relevant charges to be prescribed by regulations for administering the framework.
- Ensures the Commonwealth can recover costs of administering the framework where appropriate.
The Commonwealth and entities involved in the industrial chemicals sector.
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