Quarantine Amendment (Disallowing Permits) Bill 2011
Information about the Inquiry
On 14 September 2011 the Senate referred the Quarantine Amendment (Disallowing Permits) Bill 2011 for inquiry and report.
The bill amends the Quarantine Act 1908 to provide that Biosecurity Policy Determinations are disallowable legislative instruments. The bill also provides that:
• a permit to import, introduce or bring in an animal, plant, substance or thing is a disallowable legislative instrument; and
• when these instruments are presented to Parliament, the Minister is required to table a risk analysis in both Houses and refer the instruments to parliamentary committees responsible for agricultural matters.
Submissions should be received by 21 October 2011. The reporting date is 02 November 2011.
The Committee is seeking written submissions from interested individuals and organisations preferably in electronic form submitted online or sent by email to rat.sen@aph.gov.au as an attached Adobe PDF or MS Word format document. The email must include full postal address and contact details.
Alternatively, written submissions may be sent to:
Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Rural Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia
Notes to help you prepare your submission are available from the website at https://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/wit_sub/index.htm. Alternatively, the Committee Secretariat will be able to help you with your inquiries and can be contacted on telephone +61 2 6277 3511 or facsimile +61 2 6277 5811 or by email to rat.sen@aph.gov.au.
Inquiries from hearing and speech impaired people should be directed to Parliament House TTY number 02 6277 7799. Adobe also provides tools at http://access.adobe.com/ for the blind and visually impaired to access PDF documents. If you require any special arrangements to enable you to participate in the Committee's inquiry, please contact the Committee Secretariat.
Once the Committee accepts your submission, it becomes a confidential Committee document and is protected by Parliamentary Privilege. You must not release your submission without the Committee's permission. If you do, it will not be protected by Parliamentary Privilege. At some stage during the inquiry, the Committee normally makes submissions public and places them on its website. Please indicate if you want your submission to be kept confidential.
For further information, contact: Committee Secretary
Senate Standing Committees on Rural Affairs and Transport
PO Box 6100
Parliament House
Canberra ACT 2600
Australia