Bill
Customs Legislation Amendment (Controlled Trials and Other Measures) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2023-09-14. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2022-11-30
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- third reading — 2023-02-09
- introduced — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-02-09
- second reading — 2023-09-04
- second reading — 2023-09-04
- committee — 2023-09-04
- committee — 2023-09-05
- third reading — 2023-09-05
- passed — 2023-09-05
- royal assent — 2023-09-14
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2022-11-30.
The bill would allow time-limited trials of new technology, business models and approaches in customs, with oversight, to inform future regulatory reform.
The Comptroller-General of Customs could make rules setting qualification criteria for entities to participate and rules for each specific trial, including its purpose, period and conditions.
Schedule 1 would commence on a day fixed by Proclamation or, if not within 6 months of Royal Assent, the day after that period; Schedule 2 would commence the day after Royal Assent.
- The bill creates a new regulatory framework in Part XB of the Customs Act for controlled trials.
- The bill allows the Comptroller-General of Customs to make general rules for qualification criteria and specific rules for each trial.
- The bill defines 'controlled trial' and 'controlled trial provision' to limit trials to specified Parts of the Customs Act, excluding prohibited imports and exports.
- The bill makes technical amendments to align customs legislation with current legislative practice.
- The bill clarifies the operation of the Legislation Act 2003 regarding Notices of Intention to Propose Customs Tariff Alterations.
- The bill amends the Australian Border Force Act 2015 to prevent delegation of the Comptroller-General of Customs' rule-making powers for controlled trials.
Entities approved to participate in controlled trials, the Comptroller-General of Customs, and the Australian Border Force.
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