2013-2014 

 

The Parliament of the 

Commonwealth of Australia 

 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

 

 

 

 

Presented and read a first time 

 

 

 

 

Quarantine Charges (Imposition--

General) Amendment Bill 2014 

 

No.      , 2014 

 

(Agriculture) 

 

 

 

A Bill for an Act to amend the Quarantine Charges 

(Imposition--General) Act 2014 

   

   

 

 

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Contents 

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Short title ........................................................................................... 1

 

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Commencement ................................................................................. 1

 

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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2

 

Schedule 1--Amendments

 

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Quarantine Charges (Imposition--General) Act 2014

 

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A Bill for an Act to amend the Quarantine Charges 

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(Imposition--General) Act 2014 

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The Parliament of Australia enacts: 

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1  Short title 

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  This Act may be cited as the Quarantine Charges (Imposition--

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General) Amendment Act 2014. 

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2  Commencement 

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(1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table 

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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with 

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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Commencement information 

Column 1 

Column 2 

Column 3 

Provisions 

Commencement 

Date/Details 

1.  Sections 1 to 3 

and anything in 

this Act not 

elsewhere covered 

by this table 

The day this Act receives the Royal Assent. 

 

2.  Schedule 1 

At the same time as section 3 of the 

Biosecurity Act 2014 commences. 

 

Note: 

This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally 

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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of 

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this Act. 

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(2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. 

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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it 

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may be edited, in any published version of this Act. 

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3  Schedules 

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  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or 

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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule 

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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect 

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according to its terms. 

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Amendments  Schedule 1 

   

 

 

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Schedule 1

--Amendments 

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Quarantine Charges (Imposition--General) Act 2014 

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1  Title 

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Omit "Quarantine Act 1908", substitute "Biosecurity Act 2014". 

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2  Section 1 

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Omit "Quarantine Charges (Imposition--General) Act 2014", substitute 

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"Biosecurity Charges Imposition (General) Act 2014". 

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Note: 

This item amends the short title of the Act. If another amendment of the Act is 

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described by reference to the Act's previous short title, that other amendment has effect 

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after the commencement of this item as an amendment of the Act under its amended 

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short title (see section 10 of the Acts Interpretation Act 1901). 

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3  Section 5 

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Repeal the section, substitute: 

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5  Extraterritorial application 

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  This Act extends to acts, omissions, matters and things outside: 

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(a)  Australia and any external Territory to which a provision of 

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this Act extends; and 

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(b)  the airspace over an area covered by paragraph (a); and 

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(c)  the coastal sea (as defined in subsection 15B(4) of the Acts 

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Interpretation Act 1901) of Australia and of any external 

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Territory to which a provision of this Act extends. 

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Note: 

Under section 4: 

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(a)  all provisions of this Act extend to the Territory of Christmas 

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Island and the Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands; and 

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(b)  a regulation may extend any or all provisions of this Act to one 

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or more other external Territories. 

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4  Section 7 

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Repeal the section, substitute: 

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Schedule 1  Amendments 

   

 

 

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7  Imposition of charges 

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(1)  A regulation may prescribe a charge in relation to a prescribed 

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matter connected with the administration of the Biosecurity Act 

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2014. 

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(2)  The charges prescribed under subsection (1) are imposed as taxes. 

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(3)  Two or more charges may be prescribed in relation to the same 

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matter, and a single charge may be prescribed in relation to 2 or 

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more matters. 

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(4)  This section imposes a charge only so far as that charge is neither a 

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duty of customs nor a duty of excise within the meaning of 

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section 55 of the Constitution. 

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5  Section 9 

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Repeal the section. 

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6  Part 3 

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Repeal the Part. 

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