Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

I advise the chamber that there will be administrative guidelines which set out the discretionary basis on which the decision can be made and in any notice there will be a provision for reasons. That will be governed by administrative guidelines. We do not think that it is appropriate to put that in the bill. It is more of an administrative nature dealing with the day-to-day work of Customs officers and we have dealt with it elsewhere in a similar fashion. Administrative guidelines are the way to go, not putting it in the bill as such. For that reason we oppose the Democrat amendment.