Bill
Biosecurity Amendment (Advanced Compliance Measures) Bill 2023
passed, as at 2023-09-13. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-06-21
- second reading — 2023-06-21
- other — 2023-08-01
- second reading — 2023-08-01
- second reading — 2023-08-01
- other — 2023-08-02
- third reading — 2023-08-02
- introduced — 2023-08-02
- second reading — 2023-08-02
- second reading — 2023-09-04
- second reading — 2023-09-04
- committee — 2023-09-04
- third reading — 2023-09-04
- passed — 2023-09-04
- royal assent — 2023-09-13
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 2023-06-21.
The bill would update Australia's biosecurity law to better handle growing risks from travel, trade, and climate change.
It would give the Director of Biosecurity new powers to demand information and travel documents from incoming travellers, and to scan and keep that data.
It would also raise fines for breaking certain biosecurity rules, add new strict liability offences, and change how approved arrangements are varied, suspended, or revoked.
- Allow the Director to require classes of incoming travellers to provide information for biosecurity risk checks.
- Allow the Director to require and scan passports or travel documents for risk assessment and future profiling.
- Create a new civil penalty for not producing a passport when required, subject to the infringement notice scheme.
- Add a 14-day period for biosecurity industry participants to comment on proposed variations to their approved arrangements.
- Introduce a reprimand as an alternative sanction for approved arrangement breaches.
- Increase civil penalties for certain human health and false information offences.
Travellers entering Australia, operators of aircraft and vessels, and biosecurity industry participants with approved arrangements.
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