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• Crimes Amendment (Penalty Unit) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  09 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Crimes Act 1914

  to increase the amount of the Commonwealth penalty unit from $222 to $275. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus No. 2) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  14 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Crimes Act 1914

  to clarify the Attorney-General’s duty to make, or refuse to make, a parole order after the non-parole period has ended;

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  ,

  Customs Act 1901

  and

  Defence Force Discipline Act 1982

  to enhance import controls on substances that are commonly used as illicit drugs and precursors but which also have legitimate uses in industry (dual-use substances). Also validates things done in reliance on certain authorisations or determinations by the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission Board. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes and Other Legislation Amendment (Omnibus) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  29 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorism Financing Act 2006

  to: clarify the application of civil penalties to ongoing failure to enrol with the Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre (AUSTRAC) before providing a designated service; allow automated decision-making for certain decisions; and reinstate protections on the use and disclosure of sensitive AUSTRAC information in connection with courts and tribunal proceedings;

  Australian Crime Commission Act 2002

  to relocate a penalty for non compliance with the provision to which it relates;

  Crimes Act 1914

  to: replace references to ‘judicial officer’ with ‘bail authority’; and make minor amendments to rectify incorrect referencing;

  Criminology Research Act 1971

  to provide that the appointment of the Commonwealth representative to the Criminology Research Advisory Council can be made by designation of a position;

  Foreign Evidence Act 1994

  to make technical amendments relating to the use of foreign material in Australian proceedings;

  International Transfer of Prisoners Act 1997

  to: provide that the Attorney-General may refuse consent to a request or application for transfer to or from Australia at an earlier stage in the process; and make minor technical amendments;

  Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters Act 1987

  to expand the existing mandatory ground of refusal regarding torture;

  Telecommunications (Interception and Access) Act 1979

  to expand the matters on which jurisdictional public interest monitors can make submissions; and

  Witness Protection Act 1994

  to: ensure that past participants of Australian Federal Police (AFP) witness protection programs are covered by the Act; enable participants to be temporarily suspended from the National Witness Protection Program where the AFP is unable to provide them with protection or assistance; and make minor and technical amendments. Also amends five Acts to update references to the South Australian Independent Commission Against Corruption. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Crimes Legislation Amendment (Combatting Foreign Bribery) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Jun 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Criminal Code Act 1995

  to: extend the foreign bribery offence to include the bribery of candidates for public office and bribery conducted to obtain a personal advantage; remove the requirement that a benefit or business advantage be ‘not legitimately due’ and replace it with the concept of ‘improperly influencing’ a foreign public official; remove the requirement that the foreign public official be influenced in the exercise of their official duties; clarify that the foreign bribery offence does not require the prosecution to prove that the accused had a specific business, or business or personal advantage, in mind, and that the business, or business or personal advantage, can be obtained for someone else; and create an offence of failure of a body corporate to prevent foreign bribery by an associate; and

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  to preserve the existing rule which prohibits a person from claiming as a deduction for a loss or outgoing a bribe to a foreign public official. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022, to implement Australia's obligations under the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: implement rules of origin to determine goods eligible for preferential tariff treatment in accordance with the agreement; enable regulations to prescribe certain record keeping obligations on exporters that export goods to the United Kingdom and who make a claim that goods exported are originating goods in accordance with the agreement, and producers of such goods; and enable an authorised officer to disclose certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Amendment (India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Tariff Amendment (India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022 to implement Australia's obligations under the India-Australia Economic Cooperation and Trade Agreement, the bill amends the

  Customs Act 1901

  to: introduce rules of origin to determine if goods entering Australia from India are 'Indian originating goods'; enable regulations to prescribe certain record keeping obligations on exporters and producers that export goods to India; and enable an authorised officer to disclose certain information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Legislation Amendment (Controlled Trials and Other Measures) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Customs Act 1901

  to establish a framework to facilitate time-limited trials of trade and customs practices and technologies, with approved entities, in a controlled regulatory environment;

  Australian Border Force Act 2015

  to provide that the Comptroller-General of Customs' powers to make rules in relation to controlled trials cannot be delegated; and

  Customs Act 1901

  ,

  Customs Regulations 2015

  and

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to make technical amendments to customs legislation, including to provide that Notices of Intention to Propose Customs Tariff Alterations will not be subject to disallowance under the

  Legislation Act 2003

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  27 Oct 2022 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Customs Amendment (Australia-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement Implementation) Bill 2022 to implement Australia's obligations under the Free Trade Agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the bill amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide a free rate of customs duty for goods that are United Kingdom (UK) originating goods; specify phasing rates of customs duty for certain UK originating goods that will incrementally reduce to free; maintain rates of customs duty on certain alcohol, tobacco and petroleum products; provide a safeguard that would restore the customs duty rate to the rate applied before the commencement of the agreement for certain products; and maintain custom duty rates for certain UK originating goods. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill (No. 2) 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  30 Nov 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Assent 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide that goods covered by the Agreement between the Government of Australia and the European Space Agency for a Co-operative Space Vehicle Tracking Program are eligible for a free rate of customs duty; extend for a further year the free rate of customs duty for certain goods that are the produce or manufacture of Ukraine; provide a free rate of customs duty for certain goods that are imported for use in connection with an international sporting event; and extend for a further 2 years the increase in customs duties for imported goods that are the produce or manufacture of Russia or Belarus. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Customs Tariff Amendment (Incorporation of Proposals) Bill 2023

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  22 Mar 2023 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Home Affairs 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Customs Tariff Act 1995

  to: provide for an increase in customs duties for goods that are the produce or manufacture of Russia or Belarus imported into Australian between 25 April 2022 and 24 October 2023; provide for a free rate of customs duty for certain goods that are the produce or manufacture of Ukraine imported between 4 July 2022 and 3 July 2023; permanently extend the free rate of customs duty for certain prescribed medical products and hygiene products; provide for a free rate of customs duty for certain electric and low emission vehicles with a customs value less than the luxury car tax threshold imported into Australia on or after 1 July 2022; and correct tariff references for blood-grouping reagents and herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators following their reclassification. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum