Bill
Competition and Consumer Amendment (Australian Consumer Law—Country of Origin Representations) Bill 2020
passed, as at 2020-11-10. Industry, Science, Energy and Resources portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industry, Science, Energy and Resources
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2020-06-17
- second reading — 2020-06-17
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-08-27
- third reading — 2020-08-27
- introduced — 2020-08-27
- second reading — 2020-10-27
- second reading — 2020-10-27
- second reading — 2020-10-27
- third reading — 2020-10-27
- passed — 2020-10-27
- royal assent — 2020-11-10
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 2020-06-17.
This bill would let the government define certain manufacturing steps that count as 'substantially transformed' for country of origin claims.
It would amend the Competition and Consumer Act 2010 to allow the minister to prescribe these steps in regulations, and goods made using them would be covered by safe harbour rules.
The change is the first of three steps, with later steps involving changes to regulations and a new information standard for Australian-made complementary medicines.
- Creates a power to prescribe processes that satisfy the 'substantially transformed' definition.
- Allows traders using prescribed processes to make country of origin claims without breaching certain sections of the Act.
- Extends safe harbour coverage to goods undergoing prescribed processes for complementary medicines.
Manufacturers and brand owners of complementary medicines made in Australia, and traders making country of origin claims.
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