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• Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Superannuation Outcomes For Australians and Helping Australian Businesses Invest) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Superannuation Guarantee (Administration) Act 1992

  to remove the $450-a-month threshold before an employee's salary or wages count towards the superannuation guarantee;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to increase the limit on the maximum amount of voluntary contributions made over multiple financial years that are eligible to be released under the First Home Super Saver Scheme from $30 000 to $50 000;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to: enable individuals aged 60 and above to make downsizer contributions to their superannuation plan from the proceeds of selling their home; apply the work test to individuals aged between 67 and 75 who claim a deduction for personal superannuation contributions and allow such individuals to make or receive non-concessional superannuation contributions under the bring forward rule; and enable superannuation trustees to choose their preferred method of calculating exempt current pension income when they have member interests in both accumulation and retirement phases for part, but not all, of the income year; and

  Income Tax (Transitional Provisions) Act 1997

  to extend the temporary full expensing regime to 30 June 2023. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resourses 

  Summary

  Further to the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 and the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021, the bill amends the:

  Offshore Petroleum and Greenhouse Gas Storage Act 2006

  to: extend the operation of the Act to provide that a person commits an offence if a regulated entity interferes with offshore infrastructure activities; clarify the dual role of the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority (NOPSEMA) in regulating the Act and the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure framework, including in relation to NOPSEMA's duties, money and annual reporting requirements; and clarify that the National Offshore Petroleum Titles Administrator may also be appointed as the Offshore Infrastructure Registrar; and

  Coral Sea Islands Act 1969

  ,

  Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999

  ,

  Sea Installations Act 1987

  and

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Telstra Corporation and Other Legislation Amendment Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Telecommunications Act 1997

  to: define Telstra successor companies and designated Telstra successor entities and replace references to Telstra with references to the successor entities; allow the Minister and Australian Communications and Media Authority to make determinations relating to the designated successor entities; and make technical and consequential amendments; Telstra Corporation Act 2001 to extend existing regulations relating to the operation and ownership of Telstra to its successor entities; the

  Competition and Consumer Act 2010

  to: extend existing regulations relating to the operation and ownership of Telstra to its successor entities; and make consequential amendments; the

  Telecommunications (Consumer Protection and Service Standards) Act 1999

  to: extend the Minister's powers to impose service provider obligations to Telstra's successor entities and retail price controls on each successor entity; and make consequential technical amendments; and amends three regulations, four determinations and a code of access in relation to ownership of Telstra shares, access to telecommunications infrastructure, carrier licence conditions, emergency call persons and services, real estate development exemptions, arbitration and sunsetting. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Exempting Disability Payments from Income Testing and Other Measures) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: nine Acts to: exempt certain payments, known as the adjusted disability pension, from the social security income test; and remove the Defence Force Income Support Allowance; the

  Veterans' Entitlement Act 1986

  to: remove the disability income rent test; replace references to 'disability pension' with references that clarify the nature of the payment as a compensation payment; and adjust the mechanism for indexation of certain payments; and the

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  to establish a non-liability rehabilitation pilot to provide veterans with access to rehabilitation support without the requirement to have lodged a compensation claim. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Corporations Amendment (Meetings and Documents) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Corporations Act 2001

  to: establish a permanent mechanism to allow companies and registered schemes to hold hybrid (in person and remote) meetings; and use technology to execute, sign and share company and meeting related documents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Petroleum (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Treasury Laws Amendment (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021, the bill imposes a temporary levy on offshore petroleum production to recover the Commonwealth's costs of decommissioning the Laminaria and Corallina oil fields and associated infrastructure. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Treasury Laws Amendment (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Oct 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Petroleum (Laminaria and Corallina Decommissioning Cost Recovery Levy) Bill 2021, the bill amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Petroleum Resource Rent Tax Assessment Act 1987

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to specify certain administrative features relating to the Laminaria and Corallina decommissioning levy, including the requirement that the levy is payable to the Commissioner of Taxation annually. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021 to facilitate and regulate the development of electricity infrastructure in Commonwealth waters, the bill imposes an offshore electricity infrastructure levy on offshore electricity infrastructure licence holders or those engaging in offshore infrastructure activities prescribed by regulations. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Offshore Electricity Infrastructure Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  02 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Industry, Science, Energy and Resources 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Offshore Electricity Infrastructure (Regulatory Levies) Bill 2021 to facilitate and regulate the development of electricity infrastructure in Commonwealth waters, the bill: prohibits offshore renewable energy infrastructure and offshore electricity transmission infrastructure in the Commonwealth offshore area without a licence; provides for the minister to declare specified areas suitable for offshore infrastructure activities and to grant licences allowing proponents to undertake offshore infrastructure activities in specified areas; provides for safety and protection zones to protect offshore electricity infrastructure; establishes the Offshore Infrastructure Registrar to administer the licensing scheme, including maintaining a register of licences and managing the licence application process; identifies the National Offshore Petroleum Safety and Environmental Management Authority as the Offshore Infrastructure Regulator with work health and safety, environmental management, infrastructure integrity and regulatory functions; provides for directions, compliance and enforcement powers; and provides for the protection of worker safety through modified application of the

  Work Health and Safety Act 2011

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Sep 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement Implementation) Bill 2021 to implement Australia's obligations under the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: implement rules of origin to determine goods eligible for preferential tariff treatment in accordance with the agreement; enable regulations to prescribe certain record keeping obligations on exporters and producers of eligible goods to a party to the agreement for which a preferential rate of customs duty is claimed; and enable an authorised officer to disclose certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum