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Australian Passports (Gender Repeal) Amendment Bill 2023
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2023

The Parliament of the

Commonwealth of Australia[1]

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 

Presented and read a first time

Australian Passports (Gender Repeal) Amendment Bill 2023

Written by model-pierogi MP

No. , 2023

A Bill for an Act to amend the Australian Passports Act 2005 to remove gender on Australian travel documents, and for related purposes.

1  Short title

This Act is the Australian Passports (Gender Repeal) Amendment Bill 2023.

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.

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provision(s)

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this Act

The day this Act receives the Presidential Assent.

Note:         This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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.

  1. 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        Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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 to the Australian Passports Act 2005

Australian Passports Act 2005 

1  Subsection 43 (1-3)

Repeal this subsection and insert:

  1. A Minister’s determination may specify kinds of personal information that may be requested by the Minister for the purposes of Part 2.
  2. This section does not prevent the Minister from requesting under subsection 42(1) information that is not specified in a determination made for the purposes of subsection (1) of this section.
  3. A Minister’s determination will not specify personal information when relating to a person's gender.

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