2016‑2017‑2018‑2019

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

Presented and read a first time

Export Control Amendment (Banning Cotton Exports to Ensure Water Security) Bill 2019

No.      , 2019

(Ms Sharkie)

A Bill for an Act to amend the Export Control Act 1982, and for related purposes

Contents

1............ Short title............................................................................................. 1

2............ Commencement................................................................................... 1

3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2

Schedule 1—Amendments                                                                                                3

Export Control Act 1982                                                                                            3

A Bill for an Act to amend the Export Control Act 1982, and for related purposes

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

                   This Act is the Export Control Amendment (Banning Cotton Exports to Ensure Water Security) Act 2019.

2  Commencement

             (1)  Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

Note:          This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.

             (2)  Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

3  Schedules

                   Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Amendments

Export Control Act 1982

1  After section 7

Insert:

7AA  Prohibition of the export of cotton

             (1)  In this section:

start time means the start of the day 3 years after the day this section commences.

             (2)  At and after the start time, the regulations are taken to have:

                     (a)  declared that cotton grown in Australia is a prescribed good; and

                     (b)  prohibited absolutely the export of cotton grown in Australia.