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2022-2023
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny)
Amendment (Consideration of UNDRIP)
Bill 2023
No. , 2023
(Senator Thorpe)
A Bill for an Act to amend the
Human Rights
(Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
, and for related
purposes
No. , 2023
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Consideration of
UNDRIP) Bill 2023
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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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Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
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No. , 2023
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Consideration
of UNDRIP) Bill 2023
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A Bill for an Act to amend the
Human Rights
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(Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
, and for related
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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
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny)
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Amendment (Consideration of UNDRIP) Act 2023
.
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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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Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Consideration of
UNDRIP) Bill 2023
No. , 2023
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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
No. , 2023
Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Amendment (Consideration of
UNDRIP) Bill 2023
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Schedule 1--Amendments
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Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Act 2011
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1 Subsection 3(1) (after paragraph (g) of the definition of
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human rights
)
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Insert:
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; (h) the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples adopted
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by the General Assembly of the United Nations as General
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Assembly Resolution 61/295 on 13 September 2007.
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2 Subsection 3(1) (note to the definition of
human rights
)
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Omit "Note", substitute "Note 1".
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3 Subsection 3(1) (at the end of the definition of
human
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rights
, after the note)
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Add:
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Note 2:
The text of United Nations General Assembly resolutions could in
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2023 be accessed through the United Nations' website
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(https://www.un.org).
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