Export Control Amendment (Clarifying Obligations Relating to Registered Establishments) Act 2026

Export Control Amendment (Clarifying Obligations Relating to Registered Establishments) Act 2026

No. 44, 2026

An Act to amend the Export Control Act 2020, and for related purposes

Contents

1 Short title

2 Commencement

3 Schedules

Schedule 1—Registered establishments and government certificates

Export Control Act 2020

Export Control Amendment (Clarifying Obligations Relating to Registered Establishments) Act 2026

No. 44, 2026

An Act to amend the Export Control Act 2020, and for related purposes

[Assented to 20 May 2026]

The Parliament of Australia enacts:

1  Short title

  This Act is the Export Control Amendment (Clarifying Obligations Relating to Registered Establishments) Act 2026.

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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted.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  Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.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—Registered establishments and government certificates

Export Control Act 2020

1  Subsection 72(1)

After “kind of goods”, insert “(whether or not it relates to a consignment of goods)”.

2  After subsection 72(3)

Insert:

 (3A) A government certificate that relates to a kind of goods and does not relate to a consignment of goods (or to 2 or more consignments of goods) remains in force until the earlier of the following:

 (a) any expiry date specified in the certificate;

 (b) the day that is 18 months after the date on which it was issued.

3  Subsection 72(4)

Omit “subsections (2) and (3), a government certificate in relation to a kind of goods”, substitute “subsections (2), (3) and (3A), a government certificate in relation to a kind of goods (whether or not it relates to a consignment of goods)”.

4  Section 143 (heading)

Repeal the heading, substitute:

143  Export operations without required registration

5  After paragraph 143(1)(a)

Insert:

 (ab) that kind of export operations in relation to that kind of goods is required by the rules to be carried out at an establishment which is registered for that kind of operations in relation to that kind of goods; and

6  Application of amendments

(1) The amendments made by items 1 to 3 of this Schedule apply in relation to government certificates issued on or after the commencement of this item.

(2) The amendments made by items 4 and 5 of this Schedule apply in relation to the conduct of an occupier of a registered establishment that occurs on or after the commencement of this item.

[Minister’s second reading speech made in—

House of Representatives on 12 March 2026

Senate on 25 March 2026]