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• Privacy Amendment (Enhancing Privacy Protection) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  23 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  In response to the Australian Law Reform Commission’s report in relation to Australian privacy law and practice, the bill amends the

  Privacy Act 1988

  to: replace the current privacy principles for the public and private sectors with a single set of privacy principles (the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs)); implement a comprehensive credit reporting system which includes five kinds of personal information; provide for codes of practice under the APPs and a credit reporting code, including powers for the Privacy Commissioner to develop and register codes that are binding on specified agencies and organisations; and clarify the functions and powers of the Information Commissioner and increase the commissioner’s ability to resolve complaints, recognise and encourage the use of external dispute resolutions services, conduct investigations and promote compliance with privacy obligations. Also makes consequential amendments to 55 Acts. 

  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

• Broadcasting Services Amendment (Digital Television) Bill 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Broadcasting Services Act 1992

  to provide earlier access, in particular circumstances, to the digital commercial satellite television service known as the Viewer Access Satellite Television (VAST) by: enabling VAST licensees to provide their digital commercial satellite television services to specified external territories; enabling third party digital retransmission services to be taken into account for administering the conditional access scheme for VAST services; requiring licensees in certain licence areas to nominate multiple places against which their time based broadcasting obligations will be assessed; and enabling the minister to vary the date for digital switchover in a licence area or when that area becomes a digital only local market area. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Amendment Bill 2012

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  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of two bills in relation to the managed investment trust (MIT) withholding tax, the bill amends the

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008

  to increase the MIT final withholding tax from 7.5 per cent to 15 per cent on fund payments made in the income years commencing on or after 1 July 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Income Tax (Seasonal Labour Mobility Program Withholding Tax) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of three bills in relation to the Seasonal Labour Mobility Program and other taxation matters, the bill imposes a 15 per cent withholding tax on income derived by non-resident workers participating in the program from 1 July 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Navigation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Navigation Bill 2012, the bill: repeals the

  Lighthouses Act 1911

  and

  Navigation Act 1912

  ; makes amendments to 28 Acts consequential on the repeal of the

  Navigation Act 1912

  ; and amends the proposed

  Navigation Act 2012

  to include the Maritime Labour Convention. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Navigation Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Infrastructure and Transport 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Navigation (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill provides for the regulation of international ship and seafarer safety, employment conditions for Australian seafarers and shipboard aspects of protection of the marine environment, including the implementation of several international conventions covering matters such as the safety of life at sea, training and certification of seafarers, prevention of collisions at sea, watertight integrity and reserve buoyancy of ships, pollution prevention standards for ships, safety of containers and salvage, and the determination of gross and net tonnage of ships. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Pay As You Go Withholding Non-compliance Tax Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Tax Laws Amendment (2012 Measures No. 2) Bill 2012, the bill imposes a pay as you go (PAYG) withholding non-compliance tax on directors and, in some circumstances, their associates where their company has a PAYG withholding liability for an income year and the director or associate is entitled to a credit for amounts withheld by the company during the income year. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social Security and Other Legislation Amendment (2012 Budget and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends: the

  Social Security Act 1991

  and

  Veterans’ Entitlements Act 1986

  to extend permanently the income test exemption for the Western Australian Country Age Pension Fuel Card and the Cost of Living Rebate Scheme; seven Acts to reduce from 13 to 6 weeks the length of time individuals can spend overseas while continuing to receive certain income support payments and family payments; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Act 2011

  and

  Family Assistance and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2011

  to remove eligibility for family tax benefit (FTB) Part A for people over 18 years of age unless they are in full-time secondary study; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  to provide that the rate of FTB Part A for a child is not restricted to the base child rate due to privately collecting less than the full child support entitlement; the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  and

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  to allow a person’s percentage of care for child support and FTB purposes to be based on the actual care of the child immediately in special circumstances; the

  Clean Energy (Household Assistance Amendments) Act 2011

  and

  Social Security Act 1991

  to clarify the eligibility of a group of low-income families to the clean energy low income supplement; and the

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) Act 1999

  ,

  A New Tax System (Family Assistance) (Administration) Act 1999

  ,

  Child Support (Assessment) Act 1989

  and

  Child Support (Registration and Collection) Act 1988

  to make technical amendments. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Superannuation Legislation Amendment (Stronger Super) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  24 May 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Superannuation Supervisory Levy Imposition Amendment Bill 2012, the bill amends the:

  Retirement Savings Accounts Act 1997

  and

  Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act 1993

  to: establish a framework to implement the superannuation data and payment regulations and standards that will apply to specified superannuation transactions undertaken by superannuation entities, retirement savings account providers and employers; and make consequential amendments;

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide for an administrative penalty framework for non-compliance with the superannuation data and payment regulations and standards; and

  Australian Prudential Regulation Authority Act 1998

  to: enable costs associated with the SuperStream measures to be included in the minister’s determination specifying the amount of levy payable to the Commonwealth; enable the minister to make a determination that specifies the proportion of levy money paid to the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) that is to be credited to the APRA Special Account; and insert a definition of the measures covered by SuperStream. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum