Bill
Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Amendment (Vaccine Indemnity) Bill 2023
lapsed, as at 2025-07-21.
- Sponsor
- Ralph Babet
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2023-08-03
- second reading — 2023-08-03
- second reading — 2023-08-10
- other — 2025-07-21
Divisions
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2023-08-03.
The bill would stop the Commonwealth from granting future indemnities to vaccine manufacturers.
It would add a new section to the Public Governance, Performance and Accountability Act 2013 to ban the Finance Minister and corporate Commonwealth entities from giving such indemnities.
The ban would apply to vaccines for human use and would not affect any existing indemnities.
- Prevents the Commonwealth from granting future indemnities to vaccine manufacturers.
- Bans the Finance Minister and corporate Commonwealth entities from giving indemnities related to the use of a vaccine.
- Defines manufacturer to include sponsors under the Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 and vaccine as a vaccine for immunising persons.
Pharmaceutical companies and vaccine manufacturers that would no longer receive indemnities from the Commonwealth.
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