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• Banking Amendment (Unclaimed Money) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Banking Act 1959

  to: exempt reactivated accounts from being reported and transferred to the Commonwealth as unclaimed moneys; and allow the Treasurer to refund moneys to authorised deposit-taking institutions that are collected unnecessarily. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Charities (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Charities Bill 2013, the bill: makes consequential amendments to 13 Acts and the proposed

  Charities Act 2013

  ; repeals the

  Extension of Charitable Purpose Act 2004

  ; and makes transitional arrangements for the registration of new subtypes of entities with the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission and to preserve the charitable status of certain entities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Charities Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Charities (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, the bill defines charity and charitable purpose for the purposes of all Commonwealth legislation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Competition and Consumer Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to insert a regulation making power to enable regulations to be made to provide exemptions from the single pricing requirements in the Australian Consumer Law. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Law Enforcement Integrity, Vulnerable Witness Protection and Other Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: authorise Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) staff to provide AUSTRAC information to the Australian Commission for Law Enforcement Integrity (ACLEI) with appropriate protection for that information; enable AUSTRAC to conduct internal reviews of certain decisions; create an exception to an offence and extend certain offences; enable the Clean Energy Regulator and the Integrity Commission of Tasmania to access AUSTRAC data; and enable AUSTRAC to engage private sector secondees;

  Law Enforcement Integrity Commissioner Act 2006

  to: require certain evidence to only be given in private; and enable ACLEI to second employees of the Australian Federal Police and other unsworn police officers;

  Crimes Act 1914

  and

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  in relation to victims of slavery, slavery-like and human trafficking offences to: extend vulnerable witness protections to adult victims and to enable evidence to be given in retrials and subsequent trials; provide for the use of victim impact statements; and enable courts to hear evidence by video-link from witnesses outside Australia;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to remove wrist x-ray as a prescribed age determination procedure;

  Migration Act 1958

  to: ensure that the prosecution bears the onus of proof in establishing age; enable the use of evidentiary certificates in the prosecution of people smuggling offences; and provide that all the time spent in immigration detention or on remand prior to sentencing is recognised in the sentencing of those convicted of people smuggling offences;

  International Transfer of Prisoners Act 1997

  and

  International War Crimes Tribunals Act 1995

  to enable Australia to recognise the United Nations’ International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals;

  Australian Federal Police Act 1979

  to enable the minister to enter into certain arrangements with either the administrator or the minister responsible for an external territory; and

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to make a technical amendment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule; align the retrospective duties provisions of the anti-dumping system with the relevant World Trade Organization agreements; clarify that the minister is the decision maker for certain findings; and provide for a circumvention activity to address sales at a loss and other similar practices. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Amendment Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Anti-dumping Measures) Bill 2013, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975

  to remove, in certain circumstances, the minister’s mandatory consideration of the lesser duty rule. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• DisabilityCare Australia Fund (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Finance and Deregulation 

  Summary

  Consequential on the package of bills in relation to funding for the National Disability Insurance Scheme (DisabilityCare Australia), the bill amends the:

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to enable reimbursements to the states and territories through the COAG Reform Fund;

  Future Fund Act 2006

  to expand the Future Fund’s duties to include management of the DisabilityCare Australia Fund; and

  Nation-building Funds Act 2008

  to enable the transfer of amounts between the Building Australia Fund, Education Investment Fund, Health and Hospitals Fund and the DisabilityCare Australia Fund in certain circumstances. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2013, the bill amends the:

  Air Services Act 1995

  to: provide that statutory liens maintain priority over security interests registered in the International Registry, provided that the statutory line was recorded first;

  Civil Aviation Act 1988

  to allow functions to be conferred on the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to enable CASA to record, remove and exercise an Irrevocable Deregistration and Export Request Authorisation; and

  Personal Property Securities Act 2009

  to provide that the Cape Town Convention will prevail over the Act to the extent that an inconsistency applies. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 May 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the International Interests in Mobile Equipment (Cape Town Convention) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2013, the bill enables Australia’s accession to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment and the Protocol to the Convention on International Interests in Mobile Equipment on Matters Specific to Aircraft Equipment which will provide an international registry system to protect secure creditors who finance the acquisition of aircraft. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum