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• Customs Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2014

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  26 Feb 2014 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Excise Tariff Amendment (Tobacco) Bill 2014, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: increase the rate of excise equivalent customs duty on tobacco through a series of four staged increases of 12.5 per cent, commencing on 1 December 2013; and index the rates of excise equivalent customs duty on tobacco to average weekly ordinary time earnings instead of the consumer price index. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Dec 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Addresses recent court and tribunal decisions by amending the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: clarify that a decision on review, or a visa refusal, cancellation or revocation decision made by the minister or his delegate, is taken to be made on the day and at the time when a record of it is made; clarify that a person in the migration zone who has previously been refused a protection visa, or who held a protection visa that was cancelled, is prohibited from applying for a further protection visa; and make it a criterion for the grant of a protection visa that the applicant is not assessed by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation to be a risk to security. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Import Processing Charges Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Nov 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Border Protection 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Import Processing Charges Act 2001

  to increase the import declaration and warehouse declaration processing charges levied on air, sea and post consignments with a value of $10 000 or more. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Temporary Sponsored Visas) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Migration Act 1958

  to: require the minister to establish the Ministerial Advisory Council on Skilled Migration to provide advice in relation to the temporary sponsored work visa program; require sponsors participating in the temporary sponsored work visa program to undertake labour market testing in relation to nominated occupations; provide that labour market testing is undertaken after redundancies and retrenchments have occurred; provide for enforceable undertakings between the minister and approved sponsors in relation to sponsorship; and enable Fair Work inspectors to monitor sponsorship compliance;

  Migration Act 1958

  and Migration Regulations 1994 to set out the requirements to be met by approved sponsors when undertaking labour market testing; and Migration Regulations 1994 to extend the period in which certain visa holders can seek new sponsored employment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Special Residence Requirements) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to enable the minister to apply alternative residence requirements to certain applicants for Australian citizenship by conferral. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Offshore Resources Activity) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Implements recommendations of the Migration Maritime Taskforce by amending the

  Migration Act 1958

  to provide that foreign workers who participate in, or support, offshore resources activities are taken to be in the migration zone and are required to hold a visa. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Unauthorised Maritime Arrivals and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: implement a recommendation of the Expert Panel on Asylum Seekers to provide that asylum seekers who unlawfully arrive anywhere in Australia are subject to the same regional processing arrangements as asylum seekers who arrive at an excised offshore place; ensure that a person does not cease to be a transitory person if they have been assessed to be a refugee; provide for discretionary immigration detention of Papua New Guinea citizens who are unlawful non-citizens and are in a protected area; and provide for an annual report on the Bali Process and aspects of the Regional Cooperation Framework. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration Amendment (Reform of Employer Sanctions) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  In response to recommendations of the

  Report of the 2010 Review of the Migration Amendment (Employer Sanctions) Act 2007

  in relation to the employer sanctions framework, the bill amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: amend the criminal offences, and create new non-fault civil penalty provisions, for persons who allow an unlawful non-citizen to work, refer an unlawful person to a third person for work, allow a lawful non-citizen to work in breach of a work-related visa condition or refer a lawful non-citizen to a third person for work in breach of a work-related visa condition; extend liability for contravention to a wider range of persons and entities; enable an infringement notice to be issued as an alternative to commencing civil penalty proceedings; extend the geographical jurisdiction in relation to work-related civil penalty provisions; and introduce investigation powers to allow authorised officers to gather evidence of suspected breaches. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Citizenship Amendment (Defence Families) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Citizenship Act 2007

  to enable certain family members of current and future overseas lateral recruits (technical specialists with previous experience in other defence forces) to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) to satisfy the relevant defence service residence requirement and be eligible for conferral of Australian citizenship at the same time as the enlisted ADF member. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Migration (Visa Evidence) Charge (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Immigration and Citizenship 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Migration (Visa Evidence) Charge Bill 2012, the bill amends the

  Migration Act 1958

  to: enable a non-citizen visa holder, or certain other persons on behalf of the visa holder, to request to be given a prescribed form of evidence of a visa and require that person to pay the visa evidence charge; provide that the amount of charge be prescribed in the regulations and must not exceed the charge limit; insert a regulation making power in relation to various matters relating to the charge; require an officer to give a person evidence of a visa within a reasonable time after they have made a request and paid the charge; and allow the minister to direct that a specified document is not to be taken to be a passport or travel document for the purposes of the regulations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum