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This is a Bill, not an Act. For current law, see the Acts databases.
2016-2017-2018
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
Presented and read a first time
Australian Passports Amendment
(Identity-matching Services) Bill 2018
No. , 2018
(Foreign Affairs and Trade)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Passports
Act 2005, and for related purposes
No. , 2018
Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill
2018
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Contents
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Short title ........................................................................................... 1
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Commencement ................................................................................. 1
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Schedules ........................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Passports Act 2005
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Australian Passports Amendment (Identity-matching Services) Bill
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A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Passports
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Act 2005, and for related purposes
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The Parliament of Australia enacts:
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1 Short title
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This Act is the Australian Passports Amendment
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(Identity-matching Services) Act 2018.
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2 Commencement
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(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table
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commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with
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column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect
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according to its terms.
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Commencement information
Column 1
Column 2
Column 3
Provisions
Commencement
Date/Details
1. The whole of
this Act
The day after this Act receives the Royal
Assent.
Note:
This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally
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enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of
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this Act.
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(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act.
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Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it
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may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
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3 Schedules
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Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or
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repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule
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concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect
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according to its terms.
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Amendments Schedule 1
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Australian Passports Act 2005
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1 After paragraph 46(d)
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Insert:
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(da) participating in a service, specified or of a kind specified in
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the Minister's determination, to share or match information
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relating to the identity of a person;
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2 Application of amendments
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The amendments of section 46 of the Australian Passports Act 2005
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made by this Schedule apply in relation to any information disclosed
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after the commencement of this item (whether the information was
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obtained before or after that commencement).
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3 After section 56
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Insert:
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56A Minister may arrange for use of computer programs to make
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decisions
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(1) The Minister may arrange for the use, under the Minister's control,
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of computer programs for any purposes for which the Minister
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may, or must, under this Act or a legislative instrument made for
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the purposes of this Act:
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(a) make a decision; or
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(b) exercise any power or comply with any obligation; or
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(c) do anything else related to making a decision or exercising a
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power or complying with an obligation.
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(2) For the purposes of this Act or the legislative instrument, the
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Minister is taken to have:
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(a) made a decision; or
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(b) exercised a power or complied with an obligation; or
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(c) done something else related to the making of a decision or
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the exercise of a power or the compliance with an obligation;
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Schedule 1 Amendments
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that was made, exercised, complied with or done by the operation
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of a computer program under an arrangement made under
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subsection (1).
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Substituted decisions
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(3) The Minister may, under a provision of this Act or of the
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legislative instrument, make a decision in substitution for a
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decision the Minister is taken to have made under paragraph (2)(a)
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if the Minister is satisfied that the decision made by the operation
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of the computer program is incorrect.
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Note:
For review of a decision made in substitution, see Division 3 of Part 5.
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(4) Subsection (3) does not limit Division 3 of Part 5 (review of
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decisions about Australian travel documents).
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4 Application of amendments
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Section 56A of the Australian Passports Act 2005, as inserted by this
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Schedule, applies in relation to any thing done after the commencement
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of this item.
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