Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (Excise Charges Imposition) Bill 2025
passed, as at 2025-12-01. Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-10-30
- second reading — 2025-11-04
- second reading — 2025-11-05
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- second reading — 2025-11-06
- third reading — 2025-11-06
- introduced — 2025-11-24
- second reading — 2025-11-24
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- second reading — 2025-11-27
- committee — 2025-11-27
- third reading — 2025-11-27
- passed — 2025-11-27
- royal assent — 2025-12-01
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 2025-10-30.
This bill is one of three in a package that would create a legal framework for charging fees related to administering the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
The specific fees and their amounts would be set by regulations, and the minister must ensure each fee recovers no more than the government's expected costs for that activity.
The package splits the fees into three separate bills because the Australian Constitution requires excise, customs and other taxes to be in different Acts.
- Creates a framework for imposing charges on activities under the EPBC Act.
- Limits charges to cost recovery, with the minister required to verify amounts do not exceed the Commonwealth's likely costs.
- Splits charges into three bills based on constitutional categories: excise, customs and general.
People and businesses that engage in activities regulated under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999.
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