House debates Customs Legislation Amendment (Border Compliance and Other Measures) Bill 2006

Second Reading

Wednesday, 16 August 2006 House of Representatives

Arch Bevis

Arch Bevis Brisbane, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Aviation and Transport Security

1:26 pm

I move:

That all words after “That” be omitted with a view to substituting the following words: “whilst not declining to give the bill a second reading, the House:

(1)
notes the delay in introducing the Accredited Client Program;
(2)
notes the waste and cost blow-outs in the associated Cargo Management Re-engineering project;
(3)
notes the broken promise to industry regarding the abandonment of duty-deferral;
(4)
notes the absence of any security enhancing measures in the Accredited Client Program;
(5)
calls on the government to conduct and publish the results of a thorough cost-benefit analysis of the Accredited Client Program, examining both the original duty deferral payment scheme and the revised payment scheme; and
(6)
notes the introduction of further legislation to amend provisions that the bill inserts into the Customs Act before the bill has even been passed”.

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