Trevor Evans (Brisbane, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Waste Reduction and Environmental Management) Share this | Hansard source

I move government amendment (7):

(7) Page 64 (after line 25), at the end of Chapter 2, add:

65A Quarterly reports

(1) The Minister must prepare a report in relation to exemptions and export licences for each quarter of each financial year.

(2) The Minister must do so as soon as practicable after the end of each quarter of each financial year.

(3) The report must contain:

(a) the information set out in paragraphs 65(1) (a) to (d) for each exemption or export licence granted during that quarter; and

(b) the information (if any) prescribed by the rules.

(4) However, the Minister must not publish any information in the report if the Minister must not publish that information under section 65.

Note: In some circumstances, the Minister must not publish information about exemptions or export licences on the Department's website (see subsection 65(2)).

(5) The Minister must publish a copy of the report on the Department's website.

This inserts a new clause 65A, which clarifies some of the requirements around the issuing of quarterly reports. For instance, subsection (2) will require the minister to prepare the quarterly report as soon as practicable after the end of each quarter of each financial year; subsection (4) will clarify that the minister must not publish any information in the report if the minister is not to publish it under clause 65 and so on.

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