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• Work Health and Safety Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011, the bill implements the Model Work Health and Safety Bill (the model bill) within the Commonwealth jurisdiction to form part of a system of nationally harmonised occupational health and safety laws which will apply to businesses and undertakings conducted by the Commonwealth, public authorities, and transitionally, non-Commonwealth licensees. State and territory governments, together with the Commonwealth, signed the Intergovernmental Agreement for Regulatory and Operational Reform in Occupational Health and Safety which commits the jurisdictions to implement the model laws by December 2011. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Work Health and Safety (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  06 Jul 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Education, Employment and Workplace Relations 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Work Health and Safety Bill 2011, the bill: repeals the

  Occupational Health and Safety Act 1991

  ; makes arrangements for transition to the new occupational health and safety laws; and amends the

  Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to make consequential amendments. 

  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

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment Bill 2010 [2011]

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Sep 2010 

  Chamber

  Senate 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to provide that a Water Efficiency Labelling Scheme (WELS) standard may require a product to comply with certain requirements relating to plumbing before the product can be registered as a WELS product. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Amendment (Scheme Enhancements) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Act 2005

  to: allow the minister to determine by legislative instrument details of the Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards Scheme, particularly in relation to registration of products; introduce civil penalties to mirror existing and amended criminal offences; make administrative changes, including removal of the requirement for gazettal of registration decisions and providing for further five-year reviews of the operation of the scheme; and remove voluntary registration of products. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Water for the Environment Special Account) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  31 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Further to the Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012, the bill amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: establish the Water for the Environment Special Account for a 10-year period from the 2014-15 financial year to acquire additional environmental water entitlement and to remove constraints on the efficient use of environmental water for the Murray-Darling Basin Plan; and provide for two independent reviews to be conducted in 2019 and 2021. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Water Amendment (Long-term Average Sustainable Diversion Limit Adjustment) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Water Act 2007

  to: enable the Murray-Darling Basin Authority to make adjustments to the long-term average sustainable diversion limit set by the Murray-Darling Basin Plan; and require the basin plan requirements for accreditation of water resource plans to include a requirement that water resource plans include a mechanism for incorporating and adjusting a relevant change in the limit for that water resource plan area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Entitlements Amendment Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  01 Jun 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to: create a prisoner of war recognition supplement; and clarify when compensation offsetting applies;

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to make consequential amendments; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to abolish the temporary incapacity allowance. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Weekly Payments) Bill 2010

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  21 Oct 2010 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Military Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2004

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to provide for weekly payments of certain periodic payments to persons who are homeless or at risk of homelessness. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Veterans’ Affairs Legislation Amendment (Participants in British Nuclear Tests) Bill 2011

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Sep 2011 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Veterans’ Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Australian Participants in British Nuclear Tests (Treatment) Act 2006

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to enable the Repatriation Commission to determine, by legislative instrument, that Australian personnel involved in the maintenance, transporting or decontamination of aircraft used in the British nuclear test program are eligible for compensation and health care under the Acts. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum