Bill
Customs Amendment (Banning Goods Produced By Forced Labour) Bill 2021
lapsed, as at 2022-04-11.
- Sponsor
- PATRICK, Sen Rex
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2021-06-24
- second reading — 2021-06-24
- second reading — 2021-08-23
- second reading — 2021-08-23
- third reading — 2021-08-23
- introduced — 2021-08-23
- other — 2022-04-11
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 2021-06-24.
This bill would ban importing any goods made with forced labour, no matter where they come from.
It would add forced-labour goods to the list of prohibited imports under the Customs Act, with the same penalties that apply to other banned imports.
The ban follows a Senate committee recommendation and uses the Criminal Code's definition of forced labour.
- Imposes an absolute, global ban on importing goods produced wholly or partly by forced labour.
- Applies the penalties for prohibited imports to any goods found to have been made with forced labour.
- Implements a Senate committee recommendation from June 2021.
Importers of goods into Australia and any businesses or consumers involved in supply chains that use forced labour.
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