Bill
Agriculture (Biosecurity Protection) Levies and Charges Collection Bill 2024
lapsed, as at 2025-02-12. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-02-28
- second reading — 2024-02-28
- second reading — 2024-03-19
- other — 2024-03-19
- second reading — 2024-03-20
- second reading — 2024-03-26
- other — 2024-03-27
- second reading — 2024-03-27
- third reading — 2024-03-27
- introduced — 2024-03-27
- second reading — 2024-03-27
- other — 2025-02-12
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2024-02-28.
This bill is part of a package that creates a new biosecurity protection levy on producers of agricultural, forestry and fisheries goods.
It sets up how the levy and related charges are collected, and allows enforcement actions such as monitoring, investigations and infringement notices.
The levy is expected to cover about six per cent of the costs of a sustainably funded biosecurity system, with most funding coming from taxpayers and importers.
- Establishes a system for collecting the new biosecurity protection levy and charges.
- Triggers enforcement powers under the Regulatory Powers (Standard Provisions) Act 2014, including monitoring, investigation and infringement notices.
- Provides rules for using and disclosing information while protecting sensitive data.
Producers of agricultural, forestry and fisheries goods, whether for domestic or overseas markets, would pay the levy.
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