Senate

Revised Explanatory Memorandum

(Circulated by authority of the Minister for Foreign Affairs, the Hon Julie Bishop MP)

Notes on clauses

Part 1-Preliminary

Clause 1-Short Title

1. Clause 1 is a formal provision specifying the short title of the Bill which, when enacted, is to be cited as the Passports Legislation Amendment (Integrity) Act 2015.

Clause 2-Commencement

2. Clause 2 provides for the commencement of the Bill.

3. Subsection 2(1) provides that each provision of this Bill specified in column 1 of the table, when enacted, commences or is taken to have commenced in accordance with column 2 of the table, and that any other statement in column 2 is to have effect according to its terms.

4. Table Item 1 specifies that sections 1-3 (and anything in the Act not elsewhere covered by the table) will commence on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent.

5. Table Item 2 provides that Schedule 1 Part 1 (main amendments) and Schedule 1 Part 2 (consequential amendments) will commence on the 28th day after this Act receives the Royal Assent.

6. Table Item 3 provides that Schedule 1 Part 3 (consequential amendments) will commence immediately after the commencement of section 99 to the Biosecurity Act 2015.

7. Table Item 4 provides that Schedule 2 (repeals) will commence on the day after the Act receives the Royal Assent.

8. Subsection 2(2) provides that any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Bill but may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.

Clause 3-Schedules

9. Clause 3 provides that legislation specified in a Schedule to the Act is to be amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and stipulates that any other item in a Schedule to the Act has effect according to its terms.