Bill
Transport Security Amendment (Security of Australia’s Transport Sector) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-03-27. Home Affairs portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Home Affairs
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2024-11-28
- second reading — 2024-11-28
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- committee — 2025-03-25
- third reading — 2025-03-25
- introduced — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-25
- second reading — 2025-03-26
- third reading — 2025-03-26
- passed — 2025-03-26
- royal assent — 2025-03-27
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.
The bill would update Australia's aviation and maritime security laws to address current and emerging threats such as cyber incidents and natural hazards.
It would broaden the definition of unlawful interference, introduce all-hazards security obligations, and add new testing powers for the maritime sector.
The bill would also enable a demerit points scheme for aviation and require yearly compliance statements from industry participants.
- Amends the definition of unlawful interference to include cyber security incidents and, for maritime, attempted acts.
- Introduces all-hazards security obligations and the concept of operational interference.
- Requires aviation industry participants to conduct a security assessment and submit a yearly Statement of Compliance.
- Introduces system testing and vulnerability testing for the maritime sector.
- Broadens and aligns security direction provisions in maritime law with aviation law.
- Enables a future demerit points scheme for aviation in regulations.
Regulated industry participants in the aviation and maritime transport sectors.
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