Bill
Customs Amendment (Expedited Seizure and Disposal of Engineered Stone) Bill 2024
passed, as at 2025-02-20. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-11-28
- second reading — 2024-11-28
- second reading — 2025-02-06
- second reading — 2025-02-10
- other — 2025-02-11
- second reading — 2025-02-12
- second reading — 2025-02-12
- other — 2025-02-12
- third reading — 2025-02-12
- introduced — 2025-02-13
- second reading — 2025-02-13
- second reading — 2025-02-13
- third reading — 2025-02-13
- passed — 2025-02-13
- royal assent — 2025-02-20
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 2024-11-28.
This bill would let authorities quickly seize and destroy banned engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs at the border.
It would give the Comptroller-General of Customs the power to order immediate destruction of these goods, bypassing the usual 30-day storage period.
The changes would start on 1 January 2025, supporting a domestic ban on engineered stone that began on 1 July 2024.
- The bill amends the Customs Act 1901 to allow expedited seizure and disposal of prohibited engineered stone products.
- It empowers the Comptroller-General of Customs to deal with seized goods as appropriate, including immediate destruction.
- It removes the requirement to store seized prohibited imports for at least 30 days before disposal for these products.
The Australian Border Force and importers of engineered stone benchtops, panels and slabs would be affected.
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