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• Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Bill 2012, the bill amends the

  COAG Reform Fund Act 2008

  to make an amendment consequential on the creation of the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs 

  Summary

  Introduced with the Social and Community Services Pay Equity Special Account (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2012, the bill creates a special account under the

  Financial Management and Accountability Act 1997

  to administer the social and community services award funding adjustments for providers of certain Commonwealth programs that have been identified as having social and community services workers covered by the Fair Work Australia equal remuneration order granted on 1 February 2012. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Tax Laws Amendment (Clean Building Managed Investment Trust) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  10 Oct 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Amends the

  Income Tax Assessment Act 1997

  ,

  Income Tax (Managed Investment Trust Withholding Tax) Act 2008

  and

  Taxation Administration Act 1953

  to provide a final withholding tax rate of 10 per cent on fund payments from eligible clean building managed investment trusts made to foreign residents in countries with which Australia has effective exchange of information. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Federal Circuit Court of Australia Legislation Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  20 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Attorney-General 

  Summary

  Amends the:

  Federal Magistrates Act 1999

  to: rename the Federal Magistrates Court as the Federal Circuit Court of Australia; change the titles of Chief Federal Magistrate to Chief Judge and Federal Magistrate to Judge; and amend the long and short titles of the Act; and

  Judges (Long Leave Payments) Act 1979

  ,

  Judges’ Pensions Act 1968

  ,

  Maternity Leave (Commonwealth Employees) Act 1973

  and

  Parliamentary Contributory Superannuation Act 1948

  to make consequential amendments. 

  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

• Clean Energy (Charges—Customs) Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to link Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism to overseas emissions trading schemes from 1 July 2015, the bill amends the

  Clean Energy (Charges—Customs) Act 2011

  to facilitate the removal of the price floor for carbon units by removing the requirement for a minimum auction reserve charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy (Charges—Excise) Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to link Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism to overseas emissions trading schemes from 1 July 2015, the bill amends the

  Clean Energy (Charges—Excise) Act 2011

  to facilitate the removal of the price floor for carbon units by removing the requirement for a minimum auction reserve charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge—Auctions) Amendment Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to link Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism to overseas emissions trading schemes from 1 July 2015, the bill amends the

  Clean Energy (Unit Issue Charge—Auctions) Act 2011

  to facilitate the removal of the price floor for carbon units by removing the requirement for a minimum auction reserve charge. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Clean Energy Amendment (International Emissions Trading and Other Measures) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Climate Change and Energy Efficiency 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to link Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism to overseas emissions trading schemes from 1 July 2015, the bill amends the:

  Clean Energy Act 2011

  to: remove the price floor for carbon units by removing the surrender charge on eligible international emissions units and the requirement for a minimum auction reserve price; restrict the quantity of eligible Kyoto units that liable entities can use to discharge their carbon pricing liabilities; provide for the calculation of an equivalent carbon price that reflects liable entities’ cost of compliance under a linking arrangement; increase the limit on advance-auctioned carbon units; prevent units being issued at auction more than three years in advance of their vintage year; change the treatment of relinquished carbon units; and enable regulations to be made to determine how specific circumstances relating to the supply and use of natural gas are treated;

  Australian National Registry of Emissions Units Act 2011

  to enable: European allowance units to be held in the Australian National Registry of Emissions Units; and the Clean Energy Regulator to issue and transfer Australian-issued international units in the event that a direct link with a foreign emissions trading scheme is not possible;

  Fuel Tax Act 2006

  to adjust the calculation of the equivalent carbon price to provide that it remains consistent with the compliance costs of liable entities under the carbon pricing mechanism with linking arrangements; and

  National Greenhouse and Energy Reporting Act 2007

  to enable the minister to determine methods to measure and adjust amounts of designated fuels for the purposes of ascertaining potential greenhouse gas emissions. Also repeals the

  Clean Energy (International Unit Surrender Charge) Act 2011

  . 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum

• Excise Tariff Amendment (Per-tonne Carbon Price Equivalent) Bill 2012

  Track (What's this?)

  Date

  19 Sep 2012 

  Chamber

  House of Representatives 

  Status

  Act 

  Portfolio

  Treasury 

  Summary

  Part of a package of seven bills to link Australia’s carbon pricing mechanism to overseas emissions trading schemes from 1 July 2015, the bill amends the

  Excise Tariff Act 1921

  to provide that the per-tonne carbon price equivalent applied to liquid fuels is consistent with the compliance costs of liable entities under the carbon pricing mechanism with linking arrangements. 

  Bill | Explanatory Memorandum