Bill
Biosecurity Amendment (Enhanced Risk Management) Bill 2021
lapsed, as at 2022-07-25. Agriculture, Water and the Environment portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Water and the Environment
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-09-01
- second reading — 2021-09-01
- second reading — 2021-10-28
- second reading — 2021-12-01
- second reading — 2021-12-01
- third reading — 2021-12-01
- introduced — 2021-12-02
- second reading — 2021-12-02
- other — 2022-07-25
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 2021-09-01.
The bill would update the Biosecurity Act 2015 to better prevent pests and diseases from entering or spreading in Australia and harming health, the environment or the economy.
It would widen pre-arrival reporting for planes and ships, create a power to direct groups on human biosecurity, and raise penalties for breaking the rules on goods.
Most changes would start the day after royal assent, but the strengthened pratique and human health rules would start by proclamation or six months after royal assent, whichever comes first.
- Strengthen penalties for failing to comply with negative pratique requirements.
- Allow the Agriculture Minister and Health Minister to authorise biosecurity program spending directly through the Act.
- Increase civil and criminal penalty amounts for contraventions of the goods-related chapter.
- Expand pre-arrival reporting requirements for aircraft and vessels.
- Create a mechanism to issue a group direction for human biosecurity risks.
- Streamline the process for making determinations about prohibited or restricted goods and for granting import permits.
People and businesses involved in international maritime and aviation arrivals, importers of goods, and the Australian Government agencies administering biosecurity.
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