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Title

  • Bills — Export Control Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020; Third Reading
  • Export Control Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2020 - Third Reading - Pass the bill

Description

  • <p class="speaker">Anne Ruston</p>
  • <p>I move:</p>
  • The majority voted in favour of a [motion](https://www.openaustralia.org.au/senate/?id=2021-02-15.167.1) to read the bill a third time - parliamentary jargon for passing the bill in the Senate. Because it has already passed in the House of Representatives, it will now become law.
  • ### What does the bill do?
  • According to the [bills digest](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Bills_Legislation/bd/bd2021a/21bd040), the bill was introduced to:
  • > * *clarify the operation of the fit and proper person test when varying the registration of export establishments*
  • > * *provide greater flexibility in the requirements for lodging a Notice of Intention to export*
  • > * *enable the Rules to provide guidance in relation to the approval of export permits*
  • > * *enable the Rules to modify provisions of the 2020 Act and the Administrative Appeals Tribunal Act 1975 in relation to review of tariff rate quota certificate decisions and*
  • > * *provide that the Rules may incorporate matters contained in agreements between Australia and other countries that relate to tariff rate quotas.*
  • <p class="italic">That this bill be now read a third time.</p>
  • <p class="speaker">Helen Polley</p>
  • <p>The question is that this bill be now read a third time.</p>