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• Customs Amendment (Enhanced Border Controls and Other Measures) Bill 2009

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  in relation to: arrival, stores and prohibited goods reporting requirements; infringement notices; failing to make a cargo report; missing goods and goods delivered without authority; harmonising the boarding powers with the United Nations Convention of the Law of the Sea; impending arrival reporting requirements for pleasure craft; devices used to enable boarding of ships subject to a 'hot pursuit'; powers to request aircraft to land; seizure of unaccounted goods without a warrant; powers of arrest; warrants; obstruction or interference with Customs equipment; powers to moor a Customs vessel to man-made structures; enabling Customs officers to board ships; entering places other than ports or airports; right of access for patrols; and technical corrections. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008 to give effect to Australia's obligations under the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: provide preferential rates of duty for Chilean originating goods; and impose certain obligations on Australian exporters and producers of goods who claim preferential tariff treatment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Financial Transaction Reports Amendment (Transitional Arrangements) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Sep 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Financial Transactions Reports Act 1988

  to facilitate the transition to regulation under the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter- Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: authorise certain cash dealers to continue reporting suspicious transactions, international funds transfer instructions and significant cash transactions to the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC); authorise solicitors, solicitor corporations and partnerships of solicitors to continue to provide AUSTRAC with cash transaction reports; and authorise certain cash dealers to enter transactions into their exemption register until 11 March 2010. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Matters) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  04 Jun 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to retrospectively re-insert the maximum penalty of two years imprisonment for the secrecy offence;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to defer until November 2009 the second review of Part ID of the Act (relating to forensic procedures); and

  Crimes (Aviation) Act 1991

  to ensure standard criminal offences apply on relevant flights. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco Content) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to insert a definition of 'tobacco content' to clarify that the customs duty payable on tobacco and tobacco products is based on the total weight of the goods. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Passenger Movement Charge Amendment Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 May 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Passenger Movement Charge Act 1978

  to increase the rate of passenger movement charge to $47 from 1 July 2008. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Strengthening Border Controls) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to allow: the surrender of certain prohibited imports that have not been concealed; the granting of post-importation permissions for certain prohibited imports; infringement notices to be served for certain offences including importing certain prohibited imports and border security related offences; and Customs officers boarding a ship or aircraft to conduct personal searches for, and take possession of, weapons or evidence of specified offences. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Law Enforcement Integrity Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs and Justice 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to introduce targeted integrity testing for staff of the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Crime Commission and the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service (Customs and Border Protection); the

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to extend the jurisdiction of the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity to all staff of the Australian Transaction Reporting and Analysis Centre and the CrimTrac Agency and prescribed staff of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry; the

  Customs Administration Act 1985

  to enable the Chief Executive Officer of Customs and Border Protection to make orders and certain declarations and to authorise drug and alcohol testing; and

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  ,

  Surveillance Devices Act 2004

  and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Oct 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs portfolio 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2008 to give effect to Australia's obligations under the Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide duty-free and preferential rates of customs duty for certain goods of Chilean origin; and phase the preferential rates of customs duty to zero by 2015. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Legislation Amendment (Modernising) Bill 2008

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Mar 2008 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs Portfolio 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  in relation to: the new Certificate of Origin requirements for the Singapore-Australia Free Trade Agreement; broker licensing provisions; and false or misleading declarations in using the new SmartGate automated passenger processing system; and

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Customs Legislation Amendment and Repeal (International Trade Modernisation) Act 2001

  in relation to duty recovery and payments under protest and the treatment of certain refunds. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum