Senate

Passports Legislation Amendment (Integrity) Bill 2015

Revised Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP)
THIS MEMORANDUM TAKES ACCOUNT OF AMENDMENTS MADE BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BILL AS INTRODUCED

Notes on clauses

Part 1-Preliminary

Clause 1-Short Title

1. Clause 1 is a formal provision specifying the short title of the Bill which, when enacted, is to be cited as the Passports Legislation Amendment (Integrity) Act 2015.

Clause 2-Commencement

2. Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the Bill.

3. Subsection 2(1) provides that each provision of this Bill specified in column 1 of the table, when enacted, commences or is taken to have commenced in accordance with column 2 of the table, and that any other statement in column 2 is to have effect according to its terms.

4. Table Item 1 specifies that sections 1-3 (and anything in the Act not elsewhere covered by the table) will commence on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

5. Table Item 2 provides that Schedule 1 Part 1 (main amendments) and Schedule 1 Part 2 (consequential amendments) will commence on the 28th day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

6. Table Item 3 provides that Schedule 1 Part 3 (consequential amendments) will commence immediately after the commencement of section 99 to the Biosecurity Act 2015.

7. Table Item 4 provides that Schedule 2 (repeals) will commence on the day after the Act receives the Royal Assent.

8. Subsection 2(2) provides that any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Bill but may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

Clause 3-Schedules

9. Clause 3 provides that legislation specified in a Schedule to the Act is to be amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and stipulates that any other item in a Schedule to the Act has effect according to its terms.


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