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• Farm Household Support Amendment (Relief Measures) Bill (No. 1) 2020

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  13 Feb 2020 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Drought and Emergency Management 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Farm Household Support Act 2014

  to: remove the use of business income reconciliation for the purposes of determining a person’s rate of farm household allowance; and remove the 28 day time limit for conducting a farm financial assessment. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sugar Research and Development Services (Consequential Amendments—Excise) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  18 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Act 1999

  to: impose the levy on sugar cane that is processed or sold for processing; set the levy rate to a maximum of 70 cents per tonne; and allow for the rate to be amended by regulation; and Primary Industries (Excise) Levies Regulations 1999 to make consequential amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sugar Research and Development Services (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Sugar Research and Development Services Bill 2013, the bill amends the:

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  and Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991 to make consequential amendments; and Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Regulations 1991 to: provide for an instalment system for payment of the levy to commence on 1 March 2014; and a penalty for late payment. Also: repeals the Sugar Research and Development Corporation Regulations 1990 to abolish the Sugar Research and Development Corporation on 1 October 2013; and contains transitional provisions relating to the transition to a new industry services body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Sugar Research and Development Services Bill 2013

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  05 Jun 2013 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Sugar Research and Development Services (Consequential Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Bill 2013, the bill enables the minister to: enter into a funding contract with an eligible company to enable it to receive and invest levies collected by the Commonwealth for research and development and to receive the Commonwealth’s matching funding for eligible research and development, up to a determined funding cap; and declare the company to be the industry services body or that it is no longer the industry services body. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Legislation Amendment Bill 2013

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  Date

  28 Nov 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: require the Australian Pesticide and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) to implement the Agvet Code having regard to certain principles; provide for the APVMA to develop, publish and have regard to guidelines (the risk compendium) when exercising powers and performing functions under the code; implement a mandatory scheme for the re-approval of active constituents and re-registration of chemical products to periodically review active constituents and products; enable consistent data protection; and remove disincentives for industry to generate and provide data;

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products (Collection of Levy) Act 1994

  ,

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to: provide the APVMA with a graduated range of compliance and enforcement powers; and provide for a power to apply statutory conditions to registration and approvals;

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemical Products (Collection of Levy) Act 1994

  to enable any Commonwealth agency to collect the levy on product sales on behalf of the APVMA;

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  to require a review at least every 10 years of all Commonwealth agricultural and veterinary chemicals legislation;

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to provide that legislative instruments remain subject to disallowance with two exceptions; and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Act 1994

  ,

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals (Administration) Act 1992

  and

  Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals Code Act 1994

  to remove redundant provisions and amend out of date provisions. Also provides for: a review to be conducted on the operation of the amendments made by this proposed Act after a five-year period; and a review on matters which relate to the functions and powers of the APVMA that are prescribed by regulation. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Fisheries Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Jun 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  and

  Fisheries Administration Act 1999

  to: facilitate the implementation of electronic monitoring (e-monitoring) of fishing and fishing-related activities undertaken by Commonwealth fishing concession and scientific permit holders, for the purposes of data collection and compliance monitoring; and make consequential amendments; and

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  in relation to: fishery closures; waiver of levies payable for surrendered statutory fishing rights; and responsibility of corporations and other concession holders for unlawful conduct of their directors, employees or agents. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Legislation Amendment Bill (No. 1) 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Wine Australia Corporation Act 1980

  to: reduce the record keeping requirements of persons, or their agents, who supply or receive wine goods that are packaged for sale to a consumer; and provide that a vintage year occurs between 1 September and 31 August;

  Fisheries Management Act 1991

  to: make compliance with a direction to close a fishery a condition on all types of statutory fishing concessions; and make technical amendments;

  Fisheries Administration Act 1991

  to enable co-management arrangements to be implemented;

  Primary Industries Levies and Charges Collection Act 1991

  to enable the secretary to remit all or part of a penalty imposed for the late payment of a levy or charge; and

  Farm Household Support Act 1992

  to remove specific references to departments and secretaries. Also: makes technical amendments to the

  Export Control Act 1982

  ,

  Primary Industries and Energy Research and Development Act 1989

  and

  Quarantine Act 1908

  ; and repeals the

  States Grants (War Service Land Settlement) Act 1952

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Wheat Export Marketing Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Mar 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Implements the recommendations of the Productivity Commission’s report into wheat export marketing arrangements by amending the

  Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008

  to transition the wheat export industry to full deregulation by: abolishing the Wheat Export Accreditation Scheme and the wheat export charge on 10 December 2012; winding up Wheat Export Australia on 31 December 2012; and removing the access test requirements for grain port terminal operators on 30 September 2014. Also makes consequential amendments to the

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  and repeals the

  Wheat Export Marketing Act 2008

  on 1 October 2014. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Illegal Logging Prohibition Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 Nov 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  The bill: prohibits the importation and sale of all timber products containing illegally logged timber; prohibits the processing of illegally harvested domestically grown raw logs; requires importers of regulated timber products and processors of raw logs to comply with due diligence requirements; requires the accurate description of legally logged timber products for sale in Australia; establishes enforcement powers and offences, and imposes penalties; and provides for a review of the first five years of the operation of the Act. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Amendment (Deer) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  17 Aug 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry 

  Summary

  Amends the

  National Residue Survey (Excise) Levy Act 1998

  to increase the cap on the National Residue Survey component of the deer slaughter levy from 4 cents to 10.5 cents per kilogram. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum