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• Farm Household Support Amendment Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to: provide that recipients of Farm Household Allowance (FHA) are not required to serve an ordinary waiting period or liquid assets waiting period (if applicable) before they can commence receiving the FHA; broaden the meaning of a ‘farm asset’ to include any asset which is used or held wholly or mainly for the purpose of a farm enterprise; specify water entitlement rights as a newly included class of farm asset; provide for the minster to make rules to exclude certain kinds of asset from the definition of a farm asset; and define the meaning of ‘water entitlement right’. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment (Representation) Bill 2017

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  08 Feb 2017 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  to: provide that the Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) must have regard to the objective of ensuring that the interests of commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishers are taken into account in the performance of its functions; provide an additional eligibility criteria for AFMA commissioners of expertise in matters relating to recreational or Indigenous fishing; provide restrictions on the appointment of commissioners who hold an executive position in a fishing representative organisation; increase the maximum size of management advisory committees from seven to ten (in addition to the Chair and the AFMA staff member); and require AFMA to try as far as practical to have memberships of commercial and recreational fishers on management advisory committees; and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to provide that the minister, AFMA and Joint Authorities established under the Act must have regard to ensuring that the interests of commercial, recreational and Indigenous fishers are taken into account in the performance of their functions. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Levies Legislation Amendment (Honey) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Dec 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Agriculture and Water Resources Legislation Amendment Bill 2016, the bill amends the

  National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998

  and

  Primary Industries (Excise) Levy Act 1999

  to remove obsolete regulatory requirements in relation to the sale of honey. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Legislation Amendment (Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  15 Sep 2016 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the Basin Plan 2012 to provide for a second notification of sustainable diversion limit adjustment measures by 30 June 2017 to enable basin jurisdictions to develop and notify new projects to augment the first package of measures notified on 5 May 2016 by the Basin Officials Committee to the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Aug 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  to enable levy and charge payer information to be provided to rural research and development corporations for the purpose of developing levy payer registers; and the

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  ,

  Dairy Produce Act 1986

  and

  National Residue Survey Administration Act 1992

  to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Biological Control Amendment Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  25 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Biological Control Act 1984

  to clarify the definition of an organism to reflect the use of viruses and sub-viral agents as agent and target organisms for biological control activities in the Australian Capital Territory (including the Jervis Bay Territory). 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Dairy Produce Amendment (Dairy Service Levy Poll) Bill 2016

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  11 Feb 2016 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Dairy Produce Act 1986

  to remove the requirement for the dairy industry to hold a dairy levy poll every five years; and enable the minister to make a legislative instrument to require the industry services body to establish a levy poll advisory committee to consider the levy rate every five years, require the industry services body to hold a levy poll if a variation to the rate is recommended by the advisory committee, and include a mechanism for dairy farmer members of Dairy Australia Limited to request a poll if they disagree with the advisory committee’s decision not to convene a levy poll. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Review Implementation and Other Measures) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  03 Dec 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  in relation to: reviews and reporting requirements for the Basin Plan; accreditation of first generation state water resource plans with further accreditations linked to Basin Plan review outcomes; incorporation of Indigenous expertise and knowledge in the governance of the basin’s water resources; trading by the Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder; and the redundancy of the Murray-Darling Basin Water Rights Information Service; and technical and consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Export Control Amendment (Quotas) Bill 2015

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  12 Nov 2015 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture and Water Resources 

  Summary

  Consolidates quota export certification arrangements for agriculture by amending the:

  Export Control Act 1982

  to: provide the secretary with powers to make orders providing for, or in relation to, the establishment and administration of a system or systems of tariff rate quotas; and enable the secretary to make directions in relation to matters covered by an order, and to override the order; and

  Australian Meat and Live-stock Industry Act 1997

  ,

  Dairy Produce Act 1986

  and

  Export Charges (Collection) Act 2015

  to make consequential amendments. Also repeals the

  Australian Meat and Live-stock (Quotas) Act 1990

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• COVID-19 Disaster Payment (Funding Arrangements) Bill 2021

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  16 Jun 2021 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management 

  Summary

  The bill: appropriates money out of the Consolidated Revenue Fund for the purposes of making COVID-19 disaster payments in the 2021-22 financial year; and requires the Coordinator-General of the National Recovery and Resilience Agency (NRAA) to include information in the NRRA’s annual report that relates to COVID-19 disaster payments made in the 2021-22 financial year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum