Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Minister for the Environment) Share this | Hansard source

I present a supplementary explanatory memorandum to the bill and ask leave of the House to move government amendments (1) to (5) together.

Leave granted.

I move government amendments (1) to (5) on sheet TK296:

(1) Clause 2, page 2 (table item 4), omit "Schedule 2", substitute "Schedules 2 and 3".

(2) Schedule 1, item 6, page 5 (after line 24), after subsection 65C(3), insert:

Sunsetting of first standards

(3A) Despite Part 4 of Chapter 3 of the Legislation Act 2003, each of the first standards made under this section in relation to a particular matter is repealed at the end of the earlier of the following days (unless revoked earlier):

(a) the day after the end of the period of 30 months beginning on the day that the standard commences;

(b) the day after the end of the period of 6 months beginning on the day that the report of the first review of the standard as mentioned in section 65G is published on the Department's website.

(3) Schedule 1, item 6, page 7 (line 27), omit "undertaken", substitute "completed".

(4) Schedule 1, item 6, page 7 (lines 29 and 30), omit subsection 65G(3), substitute:

(3) Each later review must be completed before the end of 5 years after the previous review was completed.

(5) Page 23 (after line 28), at the end of the Bill, add:

Schedule 3 — Declared States and Territories

Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

1 Paragraph 505D(1)(b)

Omit "declared State or Territory", substitute "State or self governing Territory".

2 Paragraph 505D(1)(b)

Omit "relevant State or Territory", substitute "State or self governing Territory".

3 Paragraph 505D(2)(b)

Omit "declared State or Territory", substitute "State or self governing Territory".

4 Paragraph 505D(2)(b)

Omit "Minister of the State or Territory", substitute "Minister of the State or self governing Territory".

5 Section 505E

Repeal the section.

6 Section 528 (definition of declared State or Territory )

Repeal the definition.

If I may speak briefly to these amendments, Mr Speaker—

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