2010
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
THE SENATE
Presented and read a first time
Transport Safety Investigation Amendment (Incident Reports) Bill 2010
No. , 2010
(Senator Xenophon)
A Bill for an Act to amend the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 to prevent interference with incident reports, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedule(s).......................................................................................... 2
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 3
A Bill for an Act to amend the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003 to prevent interference with incident reports, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the Transport Safety Investigation Amendment (Incident Reports) Act 2010.
2 Commencement
This Act commences on the day after it receives the Royal Assent.
3 Schedule(s)
Each Act that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.
Schedule 1—Amendment of the Transport Safety Investigation Act 2003
1 After section 19
Add:
19A Interference with reports
(1) A person commits an offence if the person, by any improper means, attempts to influence a responsible person with knowledge of an immediately reportable matter or a routinely reportable matter in respect of any report made or required to be made under this Division.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 24 months.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person inflicts any penalty upon, or deprives of any benefit to, a responsible person with knowledge of an immediately reportable matter or a routinely reportable matter in respect of:
(a) the responsible person making any report under this Division;
(b) the content of any report made by the responsible person under this Division.
Penalty: Imprisonment for 24 months.