Bill
Biosecurity Amendment (Strengthening Biosecurity) Bill 2022
passed, as at 2022-12-05. Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2022-09-28
- second reading — 2022-09-28
- second reading — 2022-11-25
- second reading — 2022-11-25
- committee — 2022-11-25
- third reading — 2022-11-25
- introduced — 2022-11-28
- second reading — 2022-11-29
- second reading — 2022-11-29
- second reading — 2022-11-29
- third reading — 2022-11-29
- passed — 2022-11-29
- royal assent — 2022-12-05
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 2022-09-28.
The bill would strengthen Australia's ability to manage pests and diseases that could harm health, the environment and the economy.
It would increase penalties, tighten rules for travellers and goods, and improve information sharing and transparency.
Most changes start the day after royal assent, but stronger pratique and pre-arrival requirements start later by proclamation or after six months.
- The bill would increase civil and criminal penalties to deter non-compliance.
- It would expand pre-arrival reporting for aircraft and vessels and strengthen penalties for failing to comply with pratique rules.
- It would allow the Agriculture Minister and Health Minister to authorise biosecurity spending directly.
- It would create a new civil penalty for hiding conditionally non-prohibited goods.
- It would improve how approved arrangements and compensation work.
- It would make the process for risk assessments and import permits more transparent.
Travellers, shipping and aviation operators, biosecurity industry participants, and the Agriculture and Health Ministers are affected.
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