Bill
Ozone Protection and Synthetic Greenhouse Gas (Import Levy) Amendment Bill 2022
passed, as at 2022-12-13. Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-09-28
- second reading — 2022-09-28
- second reading — 2022-11-10
- other — 2022-11-29
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- other — 2022-11-30
- third reading — 2022-11-30
- introduced — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- second reading — 2022-12-01
- third reading — 2022-12-01
- passed — 2022-12-01
- royal assent — 2022-12-13
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 2022-09-28.
This bill is part of a package that updates how the Commonwealth recovers its costs for managing ozone-depleting substances and synthetic greenhouse gases.
It would remove the cap on the levy rate and end the levy on importing ozone-depleting substance equipment.
The package would also update the main Act to streamline how Australia meets its international environmental obligations.
- Removes the cap on the rate at which levies can be set.
- Removes the levy on importing ozone-depleting substance equipment.
- Makes minor changes to the cost recovery model under the Import Levy Act.
Importers of ozone-depleting substances and equipment are affected by the bill.
Sources
em
billhome
frl act