Bill
Defence Legislation Amendment (Woomera Prohibited Area) Bill 2014
passed, as at 2014-08-08. Defence portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Defence
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2014-03-27
- second reading — 2014-03-27
- second reading — 2014-06-26
- second reading — 2014-06-26
- committee — 2014-06-26
- third reading — 2014-06-26
- introduced — 2014-07-14
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- other — 2014-07-16
- second reading — 2014-07-16
- other — 2014-07-16
- third reading — 2014-07-16
- passed — 2014-07-16
- royal assent — 2014-08-08
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 2014-03-27.
The bill would open the Woomera Prohibited Area to mining and other non-defence activities while keeping Defence as the main user.
It would create a permit system for non-defence access, divide the area into three zones and set up a coordination office and an advisory board.
New users would be barred from the red zone except for a geological survey by the South Australian Government with Commonwealth agencies.
- Authorise the Minister for Defence to make rules defining the Woomera Prohibited Area and its zones.
- Create a permit system for non-defence access and use of the area.
- Introduce offences and penalties for entering without permission or breaking a permit condition.
- Provide for compensation when property is acquired on other than just terms under the new Part VIB.
- Confirm that compensation remains available for loss or damage caused by Defence testing.
- Allow the Rules to limit the Commonwealth's liability for breach of duty of care in the testing area.
Non-defence users such as miners, pastoralists, Indigenous groups and railway operators, as well as the Defence portfolio and the South Australian Government.
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