Bill
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment Bill 2014
lapsed, as at 2016-04-17.
- Sponsor
- Joe Ludwig
- Portfolio
- Not recorded
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-03-19
- second reading — 2014-03-19
- second reading — 2014-08-28
- second reading — 2014-10-02
- second reading — 2014-11-27
- second reading — 2015-03-05
- other — 2016-04-17
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 2014-03-19.
The bill would let the environment minister ban a fishing activity while an expert panel studies its environmental effects.
It restores powers that let the minister, together with the fisheries minister, temporarily or permanently declare a fishing activity as needing assessment and prohibition.
A final declaration can last no longer than 24 months, and the minister must consider written submissions from affected fishing concession holders before making one.
- Repeals a sunset provision in the EPBC Act.
- Allows the minister to set up an independent expert panel to assess a declared commercial fishing activity.
- Creates civil penalties and offences for carrying out a declared commercial fishing activity.
- Requires the expert panel's report to be published and tabled in Parliament.
Commercial fishers and fishing concession holders who may be affected by a declaration.
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