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• Farm Household Support Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Jun 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to extend the Farm Household Allowance program from three cumulative years to four cumulative years for each recipient. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 May 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: enable the minister to direct the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to prepare an amendment to the Basin Plan 2012 that is the same in effect as an amendment that has previously been disallowed by either House of the Parliament, without having to undertake consultation; and provide for transitional arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Legislation Amendment (Miscellaneous Measures) Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: introduce new information-gathering arrangements in relation to monitoring, controlling and responding to biosecurity risks within Australia; clarify the definitions of ‘commercial-in-confidence information’ and ‘human remains’; clarify that protected information may be disclosed by Australia’s National Focal Point to other member states of the World Health Organization under the International Health Regulations (2005); and make technical amendments. Also repeals the

  Quarantine (Validation of Fees) Act 1985

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2018

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  28 Mar 2018 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  to: enable the Secretary of the Department of Agriculture and Water Resources to determine certain acts which, when performed, would make a person liable to collect and report levies and charges; enable the publishing of certain statistical information; provide for the collection of production or processing information relating to a collection product; and make amendments in relation to the disclosure of certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Imported Food Control Amendment (Country of Origin) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Oct 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to incorporate the Country of Origin Food Labelling Information Standard 2016 by reference. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Australian Grape and Wine Authority Amendment (Wine Australia) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Sep 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Australian Grape and Wine Authority Act 2013

  to: enable the Australian Grape and Wine Authority to implement, facilitate and administer programs for cider and in relation to international wine tourism, and to administer grant programs for wine; change the authority’s name to Wine Australia; and amend the short title of the Act to the

  Wine Australia Act 2013

  ; and

  Freedom of Information Act 1982

  ,

  Primary Industries (Customs) Charges Act 1999

  ,

  Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

  and

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Regional Investment Corporation Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  The bill: establishes the Regional Investment Corporation to administer farm business loans and financial assistance granted to states and territories in relation to water infrastructure projects, and any future programs prescribed by rules; provides for the corporation’s functions, operating mandate, ministerial directions, board membership and appointment of a chief executive officer and staff; and provides for miscellaneous matters, including the recovery of costs, delegations, power to make rules, and an independent review of the operation of the Act before 1 July 2024. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Imported Food Control Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Imported Food Control Act 1992

  to: require a food safety management certificate from importers of certain foods where at-border testing alone is insufficient to provide assurance of food safety; enable food to be held at the border where there is uncertainty about the safety of a particular food and where the scientific approach to verify its safety is not established; provide additional powers to monitor and manage new and emerging risks; recognise a foreign country’s food safety regulatory system where it is equivalent to Australia’s food safety system; establish differentiated enforcement provisions to enable a graduated approach to non-compliance; require importers of food to keep records to enable traceability of food; and make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries Research and Development Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries Research and Development Act 1989

  to: enable statutory research and development corporations to undertake marketing activities funded by voluntary contributions; remove the requirement that the corporations can undertake marketing only where a marketing levy is attached to the corporation; and enable corporations to undertake incidental activities such as consulting about, or planning, marketing activities. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biosecurity Amendment (Ballast Water and Other Measures) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biosecurity Act 2015

  to: implement the Ballast Water Convention and regulate the ballast water and sediment of certain vessels in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to manage the risk of invasive marine pests entering Australian waters; alter and standardise the type of legislative instruments that set out matters and exceptions relating to ballast water discharge in Australian seas; broaden the existing power to destroy exotic vectors of human diseases of concern on vessels and aircraft arriving in Australia; and reinstate a previous power from the superseded

  Quarantine Act 1908

  for human health officials to direct a private property to undertake control activities if an exotic vector incursion is detected. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum